Synonyms for Tangling:

• adj.

  •hindering (adjective)
  • crippling,
  • Delaying,
  • Entrapping,
  • Clogging,
  • Deterring,
  • thwarting,
  • constipating,
  • Damming,
  • Entangling,
  • hindering,
  • congesting,
  • Fouling,
  • Detaining,
  • burdensome,
  • Cramping,
  • constraining,
  • Complicating,
  • frustrating,
  • Resisting,
  • Restraining,
  • inhibiting,
  • bottleneck,
  • Snarling,
  • Obstructing,
  • Encumbering,
  • Crimping,
  • choking,
  • impeding,
  • Snagging,
  • Handicapping,
  • blocking,
  • baffling,
  • restricting.

• n.

  •confusion (noun)
  • be-fuddling,
  • confoundings,
  • dis-tractions,
  • Clutterings,
  • de moralization,
  • be-wilderment,
  • befuddlings,
  • dis arranging,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis-arranging,
  • dis orientation,
  • embroilings,
  • dis-orientations,
  • dumbfoundings,
  • unsettlings,
  • un settlings,
  • dis tractions,
  • be wilderments,
  • de moralizations,
  • abashings,
  • disarrangings,
  • dis orientations,
  • stirring ups,
  • perplexings,
  • un settling,
  • tanglings,
  • be-wilderments,
  • disturbings,
  • mixup mystifications,
  • de-moralization,
  • discomfitings,
  • dis-orientation,
  • up setting,
  • up settings,
  • de-moralizations,
  • un-settling,
  • un-settlings,
  • upsettings,
  • be wilderment,
  • be fuddling,
  • obscurings,
  • embarrassings,
  • dis traction,
  • up-setting,
  • up-settings.
  •disorientation (noun)
  • confusion.

• v.

  •complicating (verb)
  • confounding,
  • perplexing,
  • Involving,
  • mixing up,
  • confusing.
  •hindering (verb)
  • jamming,
  • Burdening,
  • Plugging,
  • barring,
  • braking,
  • Checking,
  • curbing,
  • Bunging,
  • bottlenecking,
  • Staying,
  • catching,
  • Paralyzing,
  • fettering,
  • Hampering,
  • Interrupting,
  • opposing,
  • countering,
  • stopping,
  • Miring,
  • Impairing,
  • dragging,
  • Hamstringing.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • disorientation,
  • embarrassing,
  • pother,
  • Addlings,
  • blurrings,
  • disorientations,
  • mixup mystification,
  • stirring up.
  •Other relevant words:
  • admixture,
  • ado,
  • affray,
  • at odds,
  • awkward,
  • becloud,
  • befog,
  • befuddlement,
  • beguilement,
  • bemusement,
  • blackball,
  • block,
  • booby hatch,
  • brouhaha,
  • brush,
  • bustle about,
  • byzantine,
  • cark,
  • carrefour,
  • cartage,
  • cloud,
  • clutter up,
  • commixture,
  • communicable,
  • complicatedness,
  • confining,
  • conjugation,
  • constriction,
  • constrictive,
  • contagious,
  • contractable,
  • contracting,
  • contradictory,
  • convoluted,
  • coupling,
  • cower,
  • crazy house,
  • cross,
  • crossbreeding,
  • crossover,
  • crossroad,
  • crosswalk,
  • crossway,
  • cuckoo's nest,
  • curb,
  • daze,
  • detection,
  • din,
  • disabling,
  • discombobulation,
  • disorderliness,
  • disquiet,
  • disruption,
  • distortion,
  • distract,
  • dither,
  • electronic jamming,
  • elusive,
  • embrace,
  • engagement,
  • espial,
  • excitement,
  • ferment,
  • fermentation,
  • fillet,
  • flap,
  • flurry,
  • flutter,
  • fogginess,
  • foiling,
  • folie,
  • ford,
  • fray,
  • freak out,
  • frustration,
  • frustrative,
  • fuddle,
  • funny farm,
  • funny house,
  • fuss,
  • garboil,
  • glide,
  • gliding,
  • haggle,
  • haggling,
  • haze,
  • haze over,
  • hoo-ha,
  • hoo-hah,
  • huddle together,
  • huffing,
  • hullabaloo,
  • hustle,
  • hybridisation,
  • hybridization,
  • hybridizing,
  • incapacitating,
  • interbreeding,
  • interference,
  • interlock,
  • interlocking,
  • intermixture,
  • intersection,
  • involved,
  • jam,
  • jumble,
  • katzenjammer,
  • kerb,
  • kerfuffle,
  • knottiness,
  • knotty,
  • lawlessness,
  • limiting,
  • loony bin,
  • madhouse,
  • mental confusion,
  • mental disorder,
  • mental disturbance,
  • mesh,
  • meshwork,
  • misdirection,
  • mist,
  • mix,
  • mixture,
  • mortifying,
  • muddiness,
  • muddle,
  • murk,
  • murkiness,
  • mystification,
  • navigation,
  • net,
  • network,
  • noise,
  • nut house,
  • nuthouse,
  • obfuscation,
  • obscure,
  • obstructive,
  • onerous,
  • opponent,
  • overplus,
  • overrefinement,
  • pairing,
  • perturb,
  • perturbation,
  • plethora,
  • powwow,
  • problematic,
  • problematical,
  • psychological disorder,
  • puzzlement,
  • puzzling,
  • ramification,
  • ravelling,
  • ruckus,
  • ruction,
  • ruffle,
  • rumpus,
  • sailplaning,
  • sanatorium,
  • seafaring,
  • self-contradictory,
  • sexual union,
  • smother,
  • snake pit,
  • snorting,
  • soaring,
  • spin,
  • spotting,
  • spying,
  • sticky,
  • stir,
  • straining,
  • strangling,
  • strangulation,
  • superfluity,
  • taxing,
  • tempestuousness,
  • throttling,
  • tizzy,
  • to-do,
  • topsy-turvydom,
  • topsy-turvyness,
  • tortuous,
  • tortuousness,
  • torture,
  • tough,
  • tracking,
  • transmissible,
  • transmittable,
  • trouble,
  • trucking,
  • tumultuousness,
  • turmoil,
  • twirl,
  • twist,
  • twisty,
  • unenviable,
  • unhinge,
  • union,
  • unrest,
  • upheaval,
  • uproar,
  • upset,
  • voluminous,
  • welter,
  • whirl,
  • winding,
  • wrangle,
  • confusedness,
  • chokepoint,
  • hurly burly,
  • mare's nest,
  • mix-up.

Tangling Sentence Examples:

• So the little blue Puritan - like spider threw her silver gossamer web about him, tangling more and more his big, fine manly heart, and flinging diamond dust, and powder made of charms and incantations, in his eyes to blind him.

• Two sooty lanterns hung from the rafters, the light tangling among wreaths of smoke above and showing below a man whose back was turned toward them as he worked a great snoring bellows with one hand.