entangled

Definitions

Twisted together or caught in a tangled mass.

Involved in a complicated or difficult situation.

Connected in such a way that the state of one particle depends on the state of another, regardless of distance.

Examples

The kitten became hopelessly entangled in a ball of yarn.

Their lives became deeply entangled after years of working on the same project.

The fishing line was entangled in the reeds along the riverbank.

Synonyms

intertwined snarled knotted tangled matted involved complicated

Antonyms

untangled straightened unraveled detached separated orderly simple