Usually means: Excessively complex and difficult to follow.
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  1. convoluted: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. convoluted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convoluted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convoluted: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Convoluted, convoluted: Wordnik
  7. convoluted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. convoluted: Wiktionary
  9. convoluted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. convoluted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. convoluted: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. convoluted: Dictionary.com
  13. convoluted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Convoluted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Convoluted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. convoluted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. convoluted: Rhymezone
  18. Convoluted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. convoluted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. convoluted: Free Dictionary
  21. convoluted: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  23. convoluted: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (chiefly anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Complex, complicated, or intricate.

Similar:
labyrinthine, tangled, coiled, tortuous, involved, intricate, knotty, complex, Byzantine, voluminous, more...

Opposite:
simple, straightforward, uncomplicated, clear, easy

Types:
involved, complicated, intricate, elaborate, more...

Phrases:
convoluted tubule, distal convoluted tubule, proximal convoluted tubule, convoluted t-cell lymphoma, convoluted t cell lymphoma, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, proximal, intricately, distal, complexly, larger, intestine, numerous

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Similar:
labyrinthine, tangled, coiled, tortuous, involved, intricate, knotty, complex, Byzantine, voluminous, more...

Opposite:
simple, straightforward, uncomplicated, clear, easy

Types:
involved, complicated, intricate, elaborate, more...

Phrases:
convoluted tubule, distal convoluted tubule, proximal convoluted tubule, convoluted t-cell lymphoma, convoluted t cell lymphoma, distal convoluted tubules, convoluted t's, convoluted ts, most convoluted, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, proximal, intricately, distal, complexly, larger, intestine, numerous

Colors:
    indigo,     mauve,     teal,     chartreuse,     burgundy, more...



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