enrevesado

adj.

complicated, mixed-up, tangled, afoul.

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enrevesado

► adjetivo

1 complicated, difficult

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ADJ [asunto] difficult, complex; [mente, carácter] twisted

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-da adjetivo <problema> complex, complicated; <explicación/instrucciones> complicated, involved; <carácter/persona> awkward, difficult

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= convoluted, tortuous, circuitous, fiddly [fiddlier -comp., fiddliest -sup.], afoul.

Ex. Many of Marshall McLuhan's observations were not new and often convoluted.

Ex. The promulgation of Community law represents the culmination of an often tortuous legal process whose main features are laid down in the Treaty of Rome.

Ex. The printed indexes provided are difficult to use and do not give enough detail, resulting in lengthy and sometimes circuitous searches for required information.

Ex. Everything is small and fiddly, and the user has to guess what is what.

Ex. Dan, who had known from the start that things were afoul, demanded that officer show him their IDs.

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-da adjetivo <problema> complex, complicated; <explicación/instrucciones> complicated, involved; <carácter/persona> awkward, difficult

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= convoluted, tortuous, circuitous, fiddly [fiddlier -comp., fiddliest -sup.], afoul.

Ex: Many of Marshall McLuhan's observations were not new and often convoluted.

Ex: The promulgation of Community law represents the culmination of an often tortuous legal process whose main features are laid down in the Treaty of Rome.

Ex: The printed indexes provided are difficult to use and do not give enough detail, resulting in lengthy and sometimes circuitous searches for required information.

Ex: Everything is small and fiddly, and the user has to guess what is what.

Ex: Dan, who had known from the start that things were afoul, demanded that officer show him their IDs.

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enrevesado -da

adjective

1 ‹problema› complex, complicated; ‹explicación/instrucciones› complicated, involved

2 ‹carácter/persona› awkward, difficult

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enrevesado

◊ -da adjetivo

complicated
enrevesado,-a adjetivo
1 (problema, persona) complicated, difficult
2 (camino) winding

'enrevesado' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
enrevesada
- metafísica
- metafísico
English:
convoluted
- devious
- garbled
- involved

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enrevesado, -a adj

complex, complicated

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enrevesado

adj complicated, involved

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enrevesado, -da adj

: complicated, involved