Hypertext Webster Gateway: "convoluted"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Convoluted \Con"vo*lu`ted\, a.
1. Having convolutions.
beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.
--Pennant.
2. Folded in tortuous windings.
A highly convoluted brain. --North Amer.
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From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
convoluted
adj 1: rolled or coiled together; "a convoluted shell"
2: 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}, {intricate}, {involved}, {knotty},
{labyrinthine}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]
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