entangling

English

Adjective

entangling (comparative more entangling, superlative most entangling)

1. That causes entanglement.
   • 1835, John Pye Smith, The Protestant Dissent Vindicated, page 51:

     Were you, Sir, or I, to become stock-jobbers, money-scriveners, or adventurers in commerce, it would not be more entangling, or more likely to impede the discharge of our duty, in spiritually serving a congregation, and in communicating biblical and theological learning to young men of approved piety, to prepare them for the work of the ministry,—than is the other class of allurements and entanglements.

   • 2019, Alan Ned Sabrosky, Alliances In U.s. Foreign Policy:

     On balance, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the American system of alliances is now more entangling than it is supportive of American interests, and that the United States has come to find itself in the company of relatively few genuine allies, many clients, and several obvious encumbrances.

   • 2023, Ian Maclaren, Young Barbarians, pages passage=Speug, in helping Thomas John out of a very entangling place, had been so zealous that the seat had been almost entirely detached from Thomas John's trousers, and although Mr. Byles had done his best with pins, the result was not edifying;:

Derived terms

• entanglingly

 

Verb

entangling

1. present participle and gerund of entangle

Noun

entangling (plural entanglings)

1. entanglement