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
    

• rolled longitudinally upon itself
  • a convolute petal
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Byzantine , involved , knotty , tangled , tortuous , convolute