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tangle has 13 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven
“they carved their way through the tangle of vines”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for tangle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.