byzantine

  • (a) of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
    • Byzantine monks
    • Byzantine rites
  • (a) of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
  • (s) 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
    tortuous, convoluted, tangled, knotty, involved,

Nouns

  • (n) a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

Synonyms

tortuous convoluted tangled knotty involved

Words of close approximity

Byzantium
Byzantine architecture Byzantine Church Byzantine Empire Byzantine Greek