Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Winding; intricate; perplexed. Now generally labyrinthine.
Wiktionary
- adj. mazelike, having long corridors and passageways that seemingly have no exit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
Examples
“For whatever reason, the older man who owned one of the larger stores - an unusual labyrinthian basement space - took a flirty liking to me and started chatting me up.”
“The labyrinthian plot (taking place in 1937) will find”
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“But using its labyrinthian structure, BP might hope to evade the creditors.”
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“Why did the movie get to me, and beyond attempting to figure out its labyrinthian plot and outside-looking-in meta-movie-within-a play structure?”
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“He longs to live in its corners, stake a spot in the shade where he could build a shelter under trees blackened by summer lightning, where he would slowly find himself becoming obsessed with mapping the Fibonacci Sequence in seashells, discovering a labyrinthian beauty that he had never paid attention to but that was there all along.”
“In a feeble attempt to demonstrate how loathsome women are, John Hurt even tells the entire labyrinthian plot of Samson and Delilah, replete with film clips of Hedy Lamarr wielding a pair of scissors.”
“Searching his memory, he tried to visualize the layout of the vast, labyrinthian space through which he must take them.”
“Klein and Elliott lay out a web that is labyrinthian to the max.”
“Why did the movie get to me, and beyond attempting to figure out its labyrinthian plot and outside looking in meta-movie-within-a play structure?”
“Proponents have labeled the labyrinthian Proposition 1A the "Rainy Day Budget Stabilization Fund" measure but a more accurate title would be "Proposal to Freeze California State Services at Current Levels.”
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