byzantine

Adjective
  1. Of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it (synset 302981618)
    "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
  2. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium (synset 302981470)
  3. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious (synset 302184401)
    "the 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"
    similar to: complex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
    same as: convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
Noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire (synset 109715520)
    is a type of: asian, asiatic - a native or inhabitant of Asia
    belongs to:
    • byzantine empire, byzantium, eastern roman empire - a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
    • byzantium - an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital

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