convoluted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb curl, wind, or twist together
    convolute; convolve.
  2. verb practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
    twist; convolute; pervert; sophisticate; twist around.
    • Don't twist my words
  3. adjective satellite rolled longitudinally upon itself
    convolute.
    • a convolute petal
  4. adjective satellite highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
    Byzantine; tortuous; tangled; involved; knotty.
    • 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

WordNet

Con"vo*lu`ted adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913