Definizione monolingua

labyrinthine

labyrinthine (comparative more labyrinthine, superlative most labyrinthine)

1. Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
   • 1996, Steen L. Jensen, H. Gregerson. M. H. Shokouh-Amin, F. G. Moody, (eds.), Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology, page 27/4

     In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.

   • 2011, Lincoln Child, Deep Storm, page 185

     Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.

2. Twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
   • 1996, Roger Ebert, Review of ""American Buffalo"":

     Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat.

   • 2000, Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, page 51

     Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jeffersons famously elusive mind.

   • 2005, Michael W. Riley, ""Platos Cratylus: Argument, form, and structure"", page 103

     By coupling ""essence"" with ""name"" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus.

Definizione dizionario labyrinthine

	labirintico
	resembling a labyrinth

Altri significati:

Related to a labyrinth; resembing a labyrinth.

Resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze; twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing, bamboozling.

Intricate or confusing.