tangled

adj

1. Mixed up, interlaced.

   “tangled knot”

   “Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn, / Dark, benighted, travel-worn, / Over many a tangled spray, / All heart-broke I heard her say”

   “That like a mighty river onward streams / In multitudinous channels ruthlessly, / Past tangled isles and barriers of sand”

   “Lost inside a world I never belonged / Thinking that I knew my right from my wrong / Tangled in confusion feeling my way / Living in a shadow all shades of gray”

2. (broadly)Intricate.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of tangle