Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, resembling, or constituting a labyrinth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or like a labyrinth; intricate; involved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal; labyrinthian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Physically resembling a
labyrinth ; with the qualities of amaze . - adjective
Twisting ,convoluted ,baffling ,confusing ,perplexing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear
- adjective resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied.
Archive 2008-04-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied.
Escaping The Waning of the Middle Ages Mary Kate Hurley 2008
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Of course, no matter the fantasies of Pentagon scientists and planners, such futuristic solutions will not replace U.S. reliance on massive firepower, even in labyrinthine cities, as was true with Tokyo during World War II, Pyongyang during the Korean War, Ben Tre in Vietnam, and the Sunni city of Fallujah during the current war in Iraq.
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Of course, no matter the fantasies of Pentagon scientists and planners, such futuristic solutions will not replace U.S. reliance on massive firepower, even in labyrinthine cities, as was true with Tokyo during World War II, Pyongyang during the Korean War, Ben Tre in Vietnam, and the Sunni city of Fallujah during the current war in Iraq.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied
Archive 2007-03-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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During my audio commentary for Bava's LISA AND THE DEVIL, to be released on October 23 as part of the MARIO BAVA COLLECTION VOLUME 2, I note -- as Lisa Elke Sommer exits the antiques shop and gets lost in a series of backstreets -- that some of the locations recall the labyrinthine passages of Karmingen, the fictional village where KILL, BABY...
Archive 2007-09-16 2007
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During my audio commentary for Bava's LISA AND THE DEVIL, to be released on October 23 as part of the MARIO BAVA COLLECTION VOLUME 2, I note -- as Lisa Elke Sommer exits the antiques shop and gets lost in a series of backstreets -- that some of the locations recall the labyrinthine passages of Karmingen, the fictional village where KILL, BABY...
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He pointed past the ruptured cylinders, his memory recalling the labyrinthine passageways he had explored in his out-of-body search.
Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001
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And the labyrinthine, which is the term my colleague used, is really the best word, the best point, in that NASA has gone for a very long time without going through the kind of organizational -- forgive the word, but organizational re-engineering that most major companies have had to go through in the last seven to ten years.
Background Briefing On Space Station Plans ITY National Archives 1993
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But when too many of the bets went bad, Wall Street persuaded the Treasury to construct bailouts that Taibbi describes as a labyrinthine financial sewage system designed to stick us all with the raw waste and pump clean water back to Wall
NYT > Home Page By PETER S. GOODMAN 2010
artbizness commented on the word labyrinthine
(adj): relating to wordie.org interface.
September 18, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word labyrinthine
But it's not labyrinthine, it's very straightforward. :)
September 18, 2008
reesetee commented on the word labyrinthine
Perhaps that's what makes it seem labyrinthine. Give it some time, artbizness. :-)
September 18, 2008