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English adjective: Byzantine

1. Byzantine of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it


SamplesByzantine monks.
Byzantine rites.

2. Byzantine of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

3. Byzantine highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious


SamplesThe Byzantine tax structure.
Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship.
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.
Tortuous legal procedures.
Tortuous negotiations lasting for months.


Synonymsconvoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous


Similarcomplex


Antonymssimple


English noun: Byzantine

1. Byzantine (person) a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire


Broader (hypernym)Asian, Asiatic


Member meronymByzantine Empire, Byzantium, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire









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