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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LABYRINTHINE

LABYRINTHINE Lab `y *rin "thine, a.

 

Defn: Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

labyrinthine

lab y rin thine |ˌlabəˈrinˌTHēn, -ˈrinTHin, -ˈrinˌTHīn læbəˈrɪnθɪn | adjective (of a network ) like a labyrinth; irregular and twisting: labyrinthine streets and alleys. (of a system ) intricate and confusing: labyrinthine plots and counterplots.

 

Oxford Dictionary

labyrinthine

labyrinthine |ˌlabəˈrɪnθʌɪn | adjective (of a network ) like a labyrinth; irregular and twisting: labyrinthine streets and alleys. (of a system ) intricate and confusing: labyrinthine plots and counterplots.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

labyrinthine

labyrinthine adjective 1 labyrinthine corridors: mazelike, winding, twisting, serpentine, meandering, wandering, rambling. 2 a labyrinthine system: complicated, intricate, complex, involved, tortuous, convoluted, involuted, tangled, elaborate; confusing, puzzling, mystifying, bewildering, baffling.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

labyrinthine

labyrinthine adjective 1 the stadium's labyrinthine corridors: maze-like, winding, twisting, serpentine, meandering, wandering, rambling, mazy, sinuous, zigzag. 2 a labyrinthine criminal justice system: complicated, intricate, complex, involved, tortuous, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, knotty; confusing, puzzling, perplexing, mystifying, bewildering, baffling; inextricable, entangled, impenetrable, thorny, Byzantine, Daedalian, Gordian; rare involute, involuted. ANTONYMS straightforward, simple.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

labyrinthine

lab y rin thine まれ -thi an /læ̀bərɪ́nθ (ə )n |-θaɪn //-θiən /形容詞 かたく 通例 名詞 の前で 〗1 非常に難解な 〈手順など 〉.2 迷路のような 〈場所など 〉.