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PRONUNCIATION OF TANGLESOME

tanglesome  [ˈtæŋɡəlsəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TANGLESOME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tanglesome is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TANGLESOME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tanglesome in the English dictionary

The definition of tanglesome in the dictionary is tangled.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TANGLESOME


balsam
ˈbɔːlsəm
bunglesome
ˈbʌŋɡəlsəm
chucklesome
ˈtʃʌk əlsəm
cuddlesome
ˈkʌd əlsəm
dolesome
ˈdəʊlsəm
duelsome
ˈdjuːəlsəm
fulsome
ˈfʊlsəm
meddlesome
ˈmɛdəlsəm
mettlesome
ˈmɛtəlsəm
nettlesome
ˈnɛtəlsəm
opobalsam
ˌɒpəˈbɔːlsəm
quarrelsome
ˈkwɒrəlsəm
toilsome
ˈtɔɪlsəm
troublesome
ˈtrʌbəlsəm
unwholesome
ʌnˈhəʊlsəm
wailsome
ˈweɪlsəm
wheedlesome
ˈwiːdəlsəm
wholesome
ˈhəʊlsəm
wranglesome
ˈræŋɡəlsəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TANGLESOME

tangie
Tangier
tangiest
tanginess
tangle
tangle weed
tangled
tanglefoot
tanglement
tangler
tanglingly
tangly
tango
tangoist
tangolike
tangram
Tangshan
tangun
Tanguy
tangy

WORDS THAT END LIKE TANGLESOME

adventuresome
blithesome
boresome
curvesome
eyesome
gamesome
gleesome
gruesome
jokesome
lifesome
lithesome
lonesome
lovesome
on one´s lonesome
some
threesome
tiresome
unawesome
venturesome
waesome
woesome

Synonyms and antonyms of tanglesome in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tanglesome» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TANGLESOME

Find out the translation of tanglesome to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tanglesome from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tanglesome» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

杂乱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tanglesome
570 millions of speakers

English

tanglesome
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tanglesome
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tanglesome
280 millions of speakers

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tanglesome
278 millions of speakers

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tanglesome
270 millions of speakers

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tanglesome
260 millions of speakers

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tanglesome
220 millions of speakers

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Tanglesome
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tanglesome
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tanglesome
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tanglesome
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanglesome
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tanglesome
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tanglesome
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोंगाटयुक्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tanglesome
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tanglesome
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tanglesome
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tanglesome
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tanglesome
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

tanglesome
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tanglesome
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tanglesome
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tanglesome
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tanglesome

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TANGLESOME»

The term «tanglesome» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.075 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TANGLESOME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tanglesome

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TANGLESOME»

Discover the use of tanglesome in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tanglesome and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah
It is hard to leave the Irish reservoir of souls for transmigration [tanglesome of souls] clean of one who will have to reincarnate in another area [neighbour enfranchisable field] but let your spirit have no grievance of not coming back. Apparently ...
John P. Anderson, 2008
2
Original Poems, for Infant Minds
It is not to teaze you and hurt you, my sweet, But only from kindness and care, That I wash you, and dress you, and make you look neat, And comb out your tanglesome hair. I don't mind the trouble, if yon would notery, , But pay mc for all with a ...
Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, Miss O'Keeffe (Adelaide), 1821
3
Mark Twain Speaks for Himself
I don't know who Em is, and I don't care — she is not any better than she ought to be, though, I expect — but I do know that Bigelow might be in better business. But the most tanglesome paragraph in the whole lot is the one where Seward says ...
Mark Twain, Paul Fatout, 1997
4
Early Tales and Sketches: 1864 -1865
... it was as if a lady spread a diaper on her head, with two of the corners brought down over her ears, and the other trimmed with a bunch of graceful flummery and allowed to hang over her waterfall — fashions are mighty tanglesome things to ...
Mark Twain, Edgar Marquess Branch, Robert H. Hirst, 1981
5
Buffalo River Country
Now he was experiencing the tanglesome problems of casting into its brushy banks. Before long, though, he was setting a few into the little breaks of the shoreline brush like an expert. Slowly he reeled in, twitching the minnow. I watched a ...
Kenneth L. Smith, 1978
6
The Complete Works of Mark Twain:
Part of the way it was covered with small, loose stones— we trod on six at a time, and they all rolled. Another part of it was dry, loose, newly-ploughed ground. Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome ...
Mark Twain
7
Stories Wanting Only to be Heard: Selected Fiction from Six ...
... because he was wholly afraid that, scurrying through the scrub-growth and mesquite and prickly cactus and tanglesome weeds, he was going to find that body, itself crumpled, hurled into some unlikely and unwelcome position—sitting, say, ...
Stephen Corey, Douglas Carlson, David Ingle, 2012
8
Paying the Social Debt: What White America Owes Black America
3 How to Pay the Debt Getting into debt is a tanglesome net. —Ben Franklin ... we shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves. . . . —Thomas Jefferson I've been poor ...
Richard F. America, 1993
9
Wind Walker
You ever had a tanglesome branch shinny up your trunk on a moonlit night and scratch you three ways to Sun Day? And you're supposed to stand there and whimper, 'It feels soooo gooood!” Sazani shrieked, rolling on the floor. “My lady if that ...
ESTHER SUPERNAULT, 2013
10
Challenges of Power Engineering and Environment: Proceedings ...
For instance, there had existed too many and tanglesome fuel supply sources and an off-design coal quality problems for 420t/h anthracite fired boilers of 2xl25MW units, having Yangquan anthracite as design coal, a low-volatile and high ...
Ke-fa Cen, Yong Chi, Jianhua Yan, 2009

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TANGLESOME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tanglesome is used in the context of the following news items.
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Last minute Easter ideas for your preschool classroom
... lesson planning to-dos from here to year's end, and just being the creative genius you already are, teacherhood can get a little tanglesome. And the teachers? «Standard-Democrat, Apr 14»
2
Philips Fidelio X1 headphones are built for indoor use
Not to mention the 3 metre cable could be somewhat tanglesome. Joining the Philips Fidelio L1 and M1 headphones, the X1's house 50mm neodymium drivers, ... «Pocket-lint.com, Aug 12»
3
RHA MA-450i
After a day in a coat pocket, it is reduced to a tanglesome mess. When "fancy" elements like the cable braiding backfire, we're left wishing simple rubberised ... «TrustedReviews, Jul 12»
4
Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 review
For most interface operations, you'll need the pointy stylus stick, tethered to the chassis by a piece of tanglesome string. When not in use, it would be useful to ... «PC Advisor, Jul 11»

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