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tangential
adj. divergent, digressive, off or beside(s) the point,
peripheral, irrelevant, extraneous, unrelated: The matter of
cost is tangential to the main issue.
tangible adj. material, real, physical, corporeal, bodily, somatic,
solid, concrete, touchable, tactile, manifest, palpable,
evident, actual, substantial, visible, seeable, discernible,
perceptible, ponderable, objective, ostensive: Leaving aside
intangibles like taste, smell, and colour, the important
tangible characteristic of food is texture.
tangle n. 1 confusion, knot, gnarl, mesh, snarl, twist, kink,
entanglement, jam, snag, jumble, mess, skein, web, coil: It
took hours to straighten out the tangle of ribbons. 2 muddle,
complication, jumble, puzzle, medley, complexity, complication,
scramble, mishmash, mix-up, hotchpotch or US and Canadian also
hodgepodge, jungle, maze, labyrinth: She was rather bewildered
by the vast tangle of information on the subject.
--v. 3 Often, tangle up. confuse, knot, mesh, snarl, gnarl,
twist, kink, ravel, entangle, jam, snag, intertwist, intertwine,
interlace, interweave, jumble, mess up, scramble, shuffle,
muddle: Now you've tangled all the ribbons I carefully
straightened out earlier. 4 Often, tangle with. wrangle (with),
contend (with), fight (with or against), (come into) conflict
(with), come or go up against, lock horns (with), dispute, cross
swords (with), disagree (with): The sheriff is the last person
I want to tangle with.
tantalize v. tease, taunt, provoke, torment, torture, bait, tempt,
plague, frustrate: They tantalized him by hanging the keys to
his cell just outside his reach.
tantamount to
adj. amounting to, as good as, virtually the same as, (pretty)
much the same as, equal to, equivalent to, like, of a piece
with, comparable to, commensurate with: His response, for all
its politeness, was tantamount to a rejection.
tantrum n. fit (of anger or of passion), outburst, eruption, blow-up,
explosion, flare-up, storm, rage, fury, Colloq Brit paddy, wax:
He has a tantrum every time he fails to get his own way.