Imbroglio

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A difficult or intricate situation; an entanglement.
  • n. A confused or complicated disagreement.
  • n. A confused heap; a tangle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a complicated situation; an entanglement
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.
  • n. A complicated and embarrassing state of things; a serious misunderstanding or disagreement, especially one that is bitter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a misunderstanding of a complicated nature, as between persons or nations; an entanglement.
  • n. An intricate or complicated plot, as against a person, or of a romance or drama.
  • n. In music, a passage in which the rhythms of different voice-parts are conflicting or contradictory.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a very embarrassing misunderstanding
  • n. an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
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