snarled

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

snarled
    adj 1: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
           "snarled thread" [syn: {knotty}, {snarled}, {snarly}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Snarl \Snarl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snarled}; p. pr. & vvb. n.
   {Snarling}.] [Etymol. uncertain.]
   To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal
   ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner
   surface.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "snarled":
      Byzantine, balled up, complex, complicated, confounded, confused,
      convoluted, crabbed, daedal, devious, disheveled, elaborate,
      embrangled, entangled, fouled up, implicated, intricate, involuted,
      involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up,
      many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up,
      mucked up, multifarious, mussed up, perplexed, ramified,
      roundabout, ruffled, rumpled, screwed up, shaggy, snaggy, subtle,
      tangled, tangly, tousled, tously, tumbled, twisted, uncombed

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