convoluted
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Synonyms & Antonyms for convoluted
Synonyms
baroque, byzantine, complex, complicate, complicated, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled
Antonyms
noncomplex, noncomplicated, plain, simple, uncomplicated
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One of the more convoluted crypto-Twitter fights in recent memory broke out over a speech given by Michael Goldstein, head of an organization called the Nakamoto Institute. — Robert Hackett, Fortune, "A Cryptocurrency Custody Battle Is A-Brewing—The Ledger," 19 Aug. 2019 AMC’s Into the Badlands did better with the fights, but its dystopic-future setting is still mired in drearily convoluted plot machinations. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "Netflix’s Wu Assassins series lacks the Hong Kong cinema magic," 8 Aug. 2019 Ruders' 'The Thirteenth Child' The Thirteenth Child, with an English libretto by Becky and David Starobin, is based on a somewhat convoluted Grimm Brothers fairy tale, The Twelve Brothers. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, "A fairy-tale world premiere and Janácek's brutal but redemptive 'Jenufa' impress at Santa Fe Opera," 6 Aug. 2019 The increased complexity of the characters and darkness of the show itself are great, but felt cheapened by an overly convoluted mystery. — Rebecca Smith, refinery29.com, "Veronica Mars Goes To Hulu & Grows The F*ck Up," 15 July 2019 This increasingly convoluted tale moves quickly, but goes nowhere. — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: Heist satire ‘The Fall of the American Empire’ goes south," 20 June 2019 And while fans of the original will likely dive into this new series with warm nostalgia, newcomers may have a harder time parsing the specifics of these impressively convoluted backstories and relationships. — Louis Peitzman, Time, "Netflix's Tales of the City Is What Inclusion on TV Should Look Like," 6 June 2019 The missing chunks only add to an already convoluted array of disparate subjects on the front and back of the paper—a young man’s profile; a decorative dress; a hydraulic device; an esophagus and stomach. — Claudia Kalb, National Geographic, "Explore Leonardo da Vinci works from Queen Elizabeth II's private collection," 14 May 2019 My own feelings about the surgery were too convoluted—a lust for something wordless and new. — Cyrus Grace Dunham, The New Yorker, "A Year Without a Name," 12 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'convoluted.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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