labyrinthine
IPA: ɫæbɝˈɪnθin
adjective
- Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
- (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
- (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
Examples of "labyrinthine" in Sentences
- The deletion process is rather labyrinthine.
- The story takes place in a labyrinthine asylum.
- I can't follow the labyrinthine trail very well.
- In the labyrinthine plot, everyone has something to hide.
- In short, navigating royal titles is a labyrinthine process.
- His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink.
- Human beings are full of contradictions and labyrinthine complexities.
- Ferrari was the first to discover one of these labyrinthine solutions.
- Mouth Maze Cave is a large, labyrinthine river cave in Trelawny, Jamaica.
- I did not know that this site requires a complex and labyrinthine process.
- He pointed past the ruptured cylinders, his memory recalling the labyrinthine passageways he had explored in his out-of-body search.
- But when too many of the bets went bad, Wall Street persuaded the Treasury to construct bailouts that Taibbi describes as a labyrinthine financial sewage system designed to stick us all with the raw waste and pump clean water back to Wall
- And the labyrinthine, which is the term my colleague used, is really the best word, the best point, in that NASA has gone for a very long time without going through the kind of organizational -- forgive the word, but organizational re-engineering that most major companies have had to go through in the last seven to ten years.
- It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied
- It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied.
- Of course, no matter the fantasies of Pentagon scientists and planners, such futuristic solutions will not replace U.S. reliance on massive firepower, even in labyrinthine cities, as was true with Tokyo during World War II, Pyongyang during the Korean War, Ben Tre in Vietnam, and the Sunni city of Fallujah during the current war in Iraq.
- During my audio commentary for Bava's LISA AND THE DEVIL, to be released on October 23 as part of the MARIO BAVA COLLECTION VOLUME 2, I note -- as Lisa Elke Sommer exits the antiques shop and gets lost in a series of backstreets -- that some of the locations recall the labyrinthine passages of Karmingen, the fictional village where KILL, BABY...