Exact Match:
- byzantine
- a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
- characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "a fine hand for Byzantine deals and cozy arrangements"
- highly complex or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
- of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
- of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
Synonyms:
- Machiavellian,
- artful,
- balled up,
- calculating,
- canny,
- collusive,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- daedal,
- designing,
- devious,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- gordian,
- guileful,
- implicated,
- insidious,
- intricate,
- intriguing,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- plotting,
- ramified,
- roundabout,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- sly,
- snarled,
- sophisticated,
- stratagemical,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- twisted,
- up to,
- wily