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| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious |
| examples | 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 |
| Outgoing links | |
| Similar to | complex |
| Derivationally related form | tortuous → tortuousness |
| Derivationally related form | knotty → knottiness |
| Incoming links | |
| Similar to | complex |
| Derivationally related form | tortuousness → tortuous |
| Derivationally related form | knottiness → knotty |
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