ravelled

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adjective

Entwined together; tangled.

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Meanings

ravelled1

adjectiveravelled (comparative more ravelled, superlative most ravelled)

comparative more ravelled · superlative most ravelled

  1. Entwined together; tangled.

    [I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […]

    1871, Popular Science News, page 61
  2. Unravelled; frayed.
  3. figurativelyComplicated; confused; involved.

    What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests?

    1660, Edmund Waller, To the King, upon his Majesty's Happy Return
  4. computingOf a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.

    LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements.

    1975, Tse-yun Feng, Parallel processing: proceedings of the Sagamore Computer Conference
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of ravel

ravelled2

adjectiveravelled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf bread: made from flour and bran.

Origin

ravelled · adjective, verb

From ravel + -ed.

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ravelled · adjective

Origin unknown.

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Cite this entry
APA

ravelled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ravelled

MLA

“ravelled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ravelled. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ravelled,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ravelled.

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