Labyrinthine

/ˌlab.əˈɹɪn.θʌɪn/ · adjective

Meaning

Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze..

Definitions by Sense

1. Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
2. (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
3. (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.

Example Sentences

As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.

In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.

Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.

Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat.

Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.

By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus.

Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.

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