Meaning of LABYRINTHINE
Pronunciation: | | `lab'urinthin
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"
- [adj] relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear; "labyrinthine deafness"
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| Synonyms: | | Byzantine, complex, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthian, mazy, tangled, tortuous |
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| Definition: | | \Lab`y*rin"thine\, a.
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
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