convoluted
3 07 2009Adjectives
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”;