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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:Byzantine
  2. enl:convoluted
  3. enl:involved
  4. enl:knotty
  5. enl:labyrinthine
  6. enl:tangled
  7. enl:tortuous
wn:interlingual indexili:i11969

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • Byzantineconvolutedlabyrinthinetangled
  • Byzantineconvolutedinvolvedknottylabyrinthinetangledtortuous