Word: 'imbroglio' • Extended Annotations

imbroglio

Extended Annotations

Ancestral Lore of imbroglio

from Italian imbroglio "fraud; an act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved, and/or unlawful gain"

from imbrogliare "cheat, trick, deceive"

imbroglio noun

weighed and calculated deceit, for the purpose of causing a chaotic mess
- Compare imp and other imp-words
- an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding; a violently confused or bitterly complicated altercation; embroilment; an intricate or complicated situation (as in a drama or novel)
- a confused mass

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense