Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having numerous overlapping coils or folds: a convoluted seashell.
- adj. Intricate; complicated: convoluted legal language; convoluted reasoning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as convolute.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having numerous overlapping coils or folds.
- adj. Complex, intricate or complicated.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having convolutions.
- adj. Folded in tortuous windings.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- adj. rolled longitudinally upon itself
Examples
“Please explain in detail because the last place you said the word convoluted you displayed your lack of wisdom while sounding like a certain leader of another country, a little delusional.”
“The storyline is so very simple (how on earth do critics call it convoluted?) yet it draws you in nonetheless with compelling and characters completely invested in their roles.”
“If they are near age 55 they will transition directly to Medicare for life … Unemployment benefits will be extended to the part timers and temp employees and length of unemployment will be extended … with over 1,000 pages written in convoluted language, released in. pdf-non searchable format, and held until 0830 on Friday - NOBODY - has read the entire bill …”
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Country Paying a Price for Anti-Earmark Fever?
“Those who write about sex and sexuality from an ecclesial perspective are usually intellectuals, academicians and professors who approach the subject so abstractly in convoluted, scholastic language; a prime example of this would be John Paul II himself in his Wednesday talks on the Theology of the Body.”
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
“ETA: change the word convoluted to misleading, which is how the judge in the case described the language.”
“ZAHN: I think you so astutely described what that situation might be like on the ground, and I think you used the word convoluted, and you talked about the concerns about collateral damage.”
“Despite its all-star cast, the original version was panned on its initial release, called convoluted and confusing.”
“PROLOGUE THE HISTORY OF THE SECRET POLICE OF RUSSIA FROM the days of the czars to the present is quite convoluted, which is, perhaps, to be expected.”
“The document, which critics of the plan describe as convoluted and skillfully worded, does not specify any dates for construction or even mention demolition.”
“The references to the unnamed conflicting governments for whom the characters work recall the convoluted alliances countries formed and broke with each other during the Great War, but the lingering sense of devastation and trauma that the war left across Europe floats through the movie as well.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘convoluted’.
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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It's Complicated
Words about complication, complexity.
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convoluted, deride, melancholy, antagonize, antagonize, deference, portentous, prodigious, ruminate, ineffable, turgid, mossy and 58 more...
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disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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Hit Parade GRE
Princeton Review words
abscond, aberrant, alacrity, anomaly, approbation, arduous, assuage, audacious, austere, axiomatic, canonical, capricious and 287 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, renown, allude, refer, content and 109 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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words that I find intimidating.
It is what it says it is.
Forgive me, I'm new to this...anachronistic, schadenfreude, adversity, phallic, convoluted, straightforward, stoicism, baignoir, exaltation
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Vocabulary Words 2.
cow tow, evident, harassed, egalitarians, anomolous, tenuous, fondly, foment, construe, ingratiate, parlance, spectacular and 96 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
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Tweets
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danama “Embedded within Chinese leaders' convoluted, yet vague statements to Washington about North Korea is a simple message: Talk with Pyongyang.” – AP
Does “convoluted, yet vague” strike anyone else as being somewhat redundant, in that they probably made the statements deliberately convoluted so that they would be vague?
Apr 14, 2013
jwjarvis The health care system in this country is very convoluted. May 13, 2010
erinoftheyear Uneccesarily complex or complicated. I know so many people like that. Aug 15, 2007