'Convoluted' definitions:
Definition of 'convoluted'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal" [syn: convolute, convoluted]
adjective
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "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" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous]
Definition of 'Convoluted'
From: GCIDE
- Convoluted \Con"vo*lu`ted\, a.
- 1. Having convolutions. [1913 Webster]
- beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. --Pennant. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Folded in tortuous windings. [1913 Webster]
- A highly convoluted brain. --North Amer. Rev. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'convoluted'
From: GCIDE
- coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj. curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals; as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
- Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled longitudinally upon itself};curled, curled up; {involute closely coiled so that the axis is obscured)}; looped, whorled; twined, twisted; convoluted; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; wound] [WordNet 1.5]