snårig

Swedish

snår (“thicket, scrub, brushwood”) +‎ -ig (“-y”)

snårig (comparative snårigare, superlative snårigast)

scrubby, brushy, tangled (filled with snår)
- 1961, Olle Adolphson (lyrics and music), “Trubbel [Trouble]”, in Visor trycka i år [Songs printed this year]:
  Nu stryker vinden genom trädens höga kronor, men i min trädgård är det visset, mörkt och kallt. Här är det risigt och förvuxet, fult och snårigt.
  Now the wind sweeps [strokes, smooths] through the high crowns of the trees, but in my garden, it is withered, dark, and cold. Here it is scrubby and overgrown, ugly and tangled [avoids repeating "scrubby" (from "risig"), and "snårig" focuses on messiness].
(figuratively) complicated, hard to survey (of for example a line of reasoning)

Inflection of snårig
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	snårig	snårigare	snårigast
Neuter singular	snårigt	snårigare	snårigast
Plural	snåriga	snårigare	snårigast
Masculine plural³	snårige	snårigare	snårigast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	snårige	snårigare	snårigaste
All	snåriga	snårigare	snårigaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

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