Imbroglio

Definition: Imbroglio

Imbroglio

Noun

1. An intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation.

2. A very embarrassing misunderstanding.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "imbroglio" was first used: 1750. (references)

Note: Imbroglio \Im*brogl"io\, noun; plural Imbroglios. [Written also embroglio.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Imbroglio

Difficulty

Scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position.

Discord

Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.

Disorder

Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles.

Crosswords: Imbroglio

French (imbroglio, tangle), Italian (cheat, entanglement, fix, flam, hanky panky, imbroglio, kid, maze, racket, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, victimisation, victimization, wangle).

Un Maledetto imbroglio (1959)

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Books

• Ayodhya Imbroglio (reference)

• Foreign Mud the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1 (reference)

• Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed (New Directions Classics,) (reference)

• Imbroglio (reference)

• Imbroglio Negro (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Ravel, Milhaud, Barber, Ligeti - Imbroglio Wind Quintet (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Albanian

ngatërresë (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, intricacy, mess, mix, moil, muddle, Mull, network, nodus, nonsense, nuisance, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss), gjendje e vështirë (fix, jam, plight, predicament, quandary, tight squeeze). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كومة مختلطة, ‏وضع معقد, ‏وضع مختلط, ‏سوء تفاهم مربك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

недоразумение (disagreement, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rift, unpleasantness), много объркано положение, бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), безредие (anarchy, clutter, disarray, disorder, embroilment, misrule, negligence, pandemonium, pell mell, untidiness). (various references)

Czech

dìjová zápletka. (various references)

Farsi 

مسلله غامض (Dilemma), قطعه موسیقی درهم امیخته ونامرتب , سوء تفاهم (Gaingiving, Misapprehension), درهم وبرهم (Desultory, Sloppy, Turbid, Unorganized, Untidy, Woebegone). (various references)

French

imbroglio. (various references)

German

verwirrung (bafflement, bafflingness, bedevilment, bewilderment, confusion, dishevelment, disorder, disorientation, fluster, mix up, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement), Verwicklung (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, implication, intricacy, intrigue, involvement), verwickelte lage. (various references)

Greek 

περιπλοκή (complexity, complication, entanglement, intricacy, involvement, mystification, perplexity, snarl), εμπλοκή (embroilment, involution, involvement, jam). (various references)

Hebrew 

בלבולת (disorder, hodgpodge, hotchpotch), סביכות (entanglement). (various references)

Hungarian

bonyolultság (complexity, complicacy, complication, difficulty, intricacy, subtlety). (various references)

Italian

imbroglio (cheat, entanglement, fix, flam, hanky panky, kid, maze, racket, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, victimisation, victimization, wangle). (various references)

Manx

mestey-vestey (concoction, dog's breakfast, farrago, mix up). (various references)

Pig Latin

imbroglioay.(various references)

Portuguese

trapalhada (foul-up, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, huddle, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, moil, muddle, mull, muss, puddle), embrulhada (embroilment, gallimaufry, intricacy, involution, moil, muddle, mull, puddle), confus�o (hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry). (various references)

Russian 

запутанная ситуация (imbroglios), путаница (addlement, bewilderment, box-up, embroilment, hash, maze, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix, mix up, mix-up, moil, muddiness, muss, order confusion, ramble, snafu, snafus, welter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbrka (bungle, confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, jumble, macaronics, maze, mess, mishmash, muddle, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell, welter). (various references)

Spanish

lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuss, game, hash, hassle, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), embrollo (confusion, embroilment, entanglement, fix, fraud, jam, muddle, tangle, trick). (various references)

Swedish

förvirring (bewilderment, Bumble, confusion, dislocation, disorder, distraction, embarrassment, flurry, fluster, fuddle, maze, mix, mix up, perplexity, tumult), förvirrad situation. (various references)

Turkish

karmaşık durum, karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), karışık iş (complicated matter, jumble), anlaşmazlık (conflict, controversy, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dissension, disunion, disunity, divided counsel, division, embroilment, fight, friction, incompatiblity, mix up, odds, quarrel, run in, strife). (various references)

Ukrainian

складна ситуація, непорозуміння (cross purpose, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misconception, mistake, misunderstanding, unpleasantness), безладна купа. (various references)

brouiller. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "imbroglio": imbroglios. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Imbroglio" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ambrogio, imbraglio, imbrogilio, Miraglia, Miraglio, Miroglu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: obligor.

-4 letters: bloom, broil, bromo, broom, gloom, gombo, groom, igloo, libri, limbi, limbo, logoi, oboli, oribi.

-5 letters: birl, boil, bolo, boom, boor, brig, brim, brio, broo, girl, giro, glib, glim, glob, glom, gobo, grim, limb, limo, liri, lobo, logo, loom, milo, miri, moil, mool, moor, obol, olio, roil, room.

+1 letter: imbroglios.

+3 letters: microbiology.

+4 letters: microbiologic.

+5 letters: bioregionalism, hemoglobinuria, hemoglobinuric, microbiologies, microbiologist.