Labyrinthine

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Labyrinthine \Lab`y*rin"thine\, a.
     Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal;
     labyrinthian.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  labyrinthine
       adj 1: relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear;
              "labyrinthine deafness"
       2: resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a
          labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths" [syn: {labyrinthian},
           {mazy}]
       3: 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" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {intricate}, {involved},
           {knotty}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  184 Moby Thesaurus words for "labyrinthine":
     Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, aberrant, aberrative, affected,
     ambagious, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, balled up,
     bedizened, bent, big-sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed,
     circuitous, circumlocutory, cockeyed, complex, complicated,
     confounded, confused, contorted, convoluted, convolutional,
     crabbed, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, curvaceous, curvate,
     curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal,
     curvilinear, curving, curvy, daedal, declamatory, departing,
     desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious,
     digressive, discursive, distorted, elaborate, elevated, embrangled,
     entangled, errant, erratic, euphuistic, excursive, flamboyant,
     flaming, flashy, flaunting, flexuose, flexuous, fouled up, fulsome,
     garish, gaudy, geosynclinal, gordian, grandiloquent, grandiose,
     grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding,
     highfalutin, implicated, incurvate, incurvated, incurved,
     incurving, indirect, inkhorn, intricate, involute, involuted,
     involutional, involved, irregular, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian,
     lexiphanic, lofty, lopsided, loused up, lurid, magniloquent,
     many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meandrous, meretricious,
     messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, nonsymmetric,
     one-sided, orotund, ostentatious, out-of-the-way, overdone,
     overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, perplexed,
     planetary, pompous, pretentious, rambling, ramified, recurvate,
     recurvated, recurved, recurving, rhetorical, rivose, rivulose,
     roundabout, roving, ruffled, screwed up, sensational,
     sensationalistic, sententious, serpentine, shifting, showy,
     sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, sonorous, sophisticated,
     sprung, stilted, stray, subtle, swerving, tall, tangled, tangly,
     torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty,
     undirected, undulant, unsymmetric, vagrant, veering, wandering,
     warped, wavy, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag