convoluted

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adjective

1. 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"- Sir Walter Scott
- tortuous legal procedures
- tortuous negotiations lasting for months
• Syn:
Byzantine, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
• Similar to:
complex
• Derivationally related forms:
tortuousness (for: tortuous), knottiness (for: knotty)
2. rolled longitudinally upon itself
- a convolute petal
• Syn:
convolute
• Similar to:
coiled
• Topics:
botany, phytology

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Byzantine, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous, convolute