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adjective
ambagious, ambagitory, baffling, bewildering, chaotic, circuitous, complex, complicated, confounding, confusing, crooked, deviating, difficult, digressive, entangled, excursive, flexuous, full of curves, full of turns, impeditus, indirect, inextricabilis, intricate, involute, involuted, involved, jumbled, labyrinthian, labyrinthic, mazy, meandering, mixed up, muddled, mystifying, oblique, perplexing, perplexus, puzzling, rambling, raveled, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snarled, tangled, tortuous, twisted, twisting, wandering, winding
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index
circuitous, complex, devious, difficult, indirect, inextricable, sinuous, tortuous (bending)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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Labyrinthine — Lab y*rin thine, a. Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal; labyrinthian. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
labyrinthine — 1630s; see LABYRINTH (Cf. labyrinth) + INE (Cf. ine) (1). Earlier adjective forms were labyrinthian (1580s); labyrinthial (1540s) … Etymology dictionary
labyrinthine — [adj] mazelike complex, convoluted, elaborate, intricate, mazy, meandering, serpentine, sinuous, tangled, tortuous, twisting, wandering, winding, zigzag; concept 436 Ant. simple, straight, straightforward … New thesaurus
labyrinthine — [lab΄ə rin′thin, lab΄ə rin′thēn΄, lab΄ə rin′thīn΄] adj. 1. of or constituting a labyrinth 2. like a labyrinth; intricate; complicated; puzzling: also labyrinthian [lab΄ə rin′thē ən] or labyrinthic … English World dictionary
labyrinthine — [[t]læ̱bɪrɪ̱nθaɪn[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe a place as labyrinthine, you mean that it is like a labyrinth. [FORMAL] The streets of the Old City are narrow and labyrinthine. 2) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe a situation … English dictionary
labyrinthine — adjective 1) labyrinthine corridors Syn: mazelike, winding, twisting, serpentine, meandering, wandering, rambling 2) a labyrinthine system Syn: complicated, intricate, complex, involved … Thesaurus of popular words
labyrinthine — adjective 1. relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear labyrinthine deafness • Pertains to noun: ↑labyrinth 2. resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths • Syn: ↑labyrinthian, ↑ma … Useful english dictionary
labyrinthine — adjective Date: 1632 1. of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth ; intricate, involved 2. of, relating to, affecting, or originating in the internal ear < labyrinthine lesions > … New Collegiate Dictionary
labyrinthine — labyrinthically, adv. /lab euh rin thin, theen/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a labyrinth. 2. complicated; tortuous: the labyrinthine byways of modern literature. Also, labyrinthian /lab euh rin thee euhn/, labyrinthic. [1740 50;… … Universalium
labyrinthine — Relating to any labyrinth. * * * lab·y·rin·thine rin(t) thən; rin .thīn, .thēn adj of, relating to, affecting, or originating in the inner ear <human labyrinthine lesions> * * * lab·y·rin·thine (lab″ə rinґthēn) pertaining to … Medical dictionary
