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]

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. Rev.

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