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Synonyms for labyrinthine
Adjective
- 1. labyrinthine
- usage: relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear; "labyrinthine deafness"
- 2. labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy, complex (vs. simple)
- usage: resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"
- 3. Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous, complex (vs. simple)
- usage: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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"
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