convoluted

3 07 2009

Adjectives
1. (adj.) convolute, convoluted;
  - rolled longitudinally upon itself;
  - “a convolute petal”;

2. (adj.) byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous;
  - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
  - “the Byzantine tax structure”; “Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship”; “convoluted legal language”; “convoluted reasoning”; “the plot was too involved”; “a knotty problem”; “got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering”; “Oh, what a tangled web we weave”; “tortuous legal procedures”; “tortuous negotiations lasting for months”;







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