ravelled adjective5 •Entwined together; tangled.[I]n them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes […] — 1871 •(figurative) Complicated; confused; involved.What glory's due to him that could divide / Such ravelled interests? — 1660 •Unravelled; frayed. •Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.LOAD.S loads a sequence of scalars from the ravelled form of a matrix into successive AM elements. — 1975 •Of bread: made from flour and bran. formsmore ravelled · most ravelled