convoluted
twisted; coiled.
complicated; intricately involved: a convoluted way of describing a simple device.
Origin of convoluted
1Other words from convoluted
- con·vo·lut·ed·ly, adjective
- con·vo·lut·ed·ness, noun
- un·con·vo·lut·ed, adjective
Words Nearby convoluted
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How to use convoluted in a sentence
Following in their footsteps, however, has been a convoluted journey, one in which education became his first post-college occupation.
When Dead Beer Walks: A Dane in Vietnam Turns Strange Brew Into Craft Gin | Eugene Robinson | February 12, 2021 | OzySamsung is using a double-folded lens inside that bounces light around in a convoluted pattern to change the field of view.
Watch Samsung announce its new Galaxy S21 smartphones and Galaxy Buds Pro | Stan Horaczek | January 14, 2021 | Popular-ScienceBy contrast, the journey associated with making the first purchase — especially considered, big-ticket purchases — remains relatively convoluted and opaque.
Advertising automation is an underserviced category of marketing | acuityads | December 15, 2020 | DigidayWhile that might not seem relevant, the vision to bring transparency to consumers is the connecting line, the mission being to provide access to siloed data and knowledge to previously convoluted industries.
Part of an occasional seriesFootball pass coverages sometimes are convoluted and other times are misunderstood.
In effective pass coverage, what you see isn’t always what you get | Richard Johnson | November 11, 2020 | Washington Post
“The kill-chain is very convoluted,” one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast.
Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against ISIS | Dave Majumdar | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhich is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.
Forget the Wife Beating—Are You Ready for Some Football? | Steve Almond | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe legal path for the Tea Party candidate to take the fight to the courts though is still somewhat convoluted.
Could Chris McDaniel Get A Do-Over In The Mississippi Senate Race? | Ben Jacobs | July 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe House Republicans made headlines Thursday with their convoluted immigration plan.
At Retreat, Republican Alternatives Are Just Repeats | Ben Jacobs | January 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd so even the greatest TV series tend to be bogged down by endless—and endlessly convoluted—second acts.
‘True Detective’ Review: You Have to Watch HBO’s Revolutionary Crime Classic | Andrew Romano | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is large in the anthropoid apes, especially in the orang, in which it is very long and spirally convoluted.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisSometimes it rolled sullenly, and convoluted in oily surges beneath its coverlid of snow, like a bed of monstrous serpents.
You call a cigar a "convoluted weed," and so on, you know; that passes for facetiousness.
New Grub Street | George GissingThe female is more brightly coloured than the male, and has a convoluted trachea, elsewhere a masculine character.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II | Charles DarwinWhile the convoluted intestines are like the roots of a tree, absorbing nurture for it from environment.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella Kenealy
British Dictionary definitions for convoluted
/ (ˈkɒnvəˌluːtɪd) /
(esp of meaning, style, etc) difficult to comprehend; involved
wound together; coiled
Derived forms of convoluted
- convolutedly, adverb
- convolutedness, noun
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