Textual thesaurus for "convoluted"

(adj) Byzantine, involved, knotty, tortuous, tangled

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

(adj) convolute

rolled longitudinally upon itself

a convolute petal