entanglingly

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adverb

So as to entangle.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbentanglingly (comparative more entanglingly, superlative most entanglingly)

comparative more entanglingly · superlative most entanglingly

  1. So as to entangle.

    The rest of the road presented still steeper pitches, deeper bogs, and more entanglingly strewn rocks.

    1884, Alfred Marshall Mayer, Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters
    1 more example

    We may put the Exposition it self to the same Test, and judge by that, whether the Anonymus had reason to upbraid the Author of this Exposition with those rambling and general Terms in which (says he) he entanglingly wraps up the most difficult matters.

    1685, James Benigne Bossuet, An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholic Church in Matters of Controversie

Origin

  1. Middle Englishentanglen
  2. Englishentangling
  3. Englishentanglingly

From entangling + -ly.

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APA

entanglingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entanglingly

MLA

“entanglingly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entanglingly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “entanglingly,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/entanglingly.

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