"labyrinthine" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌlab.əˈɹɪn.θʌɪn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌlæb.əˈɹɪn.θɪn/ [General-American], /ˌlæb.əˈɹɪnˌθaɪn/ [General-American], /ˌlæb.əˈɹɪnˌθin/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-labyrinthine.wav [Southern-England], en-us-labyrinthine.ogg [US], en-us-labyrinthine-2.ogg [US] Forms: more labyrinthine [comparative], most labyrinthine [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪnθaɪn, -ɪnθɪn, -ɪnθiːn Etymology: From labyrinth + -ine. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|labyrinth|ine}} labyrinth + -ine Head templates: {{en-adj}} labyrinthine (comparative more labyrinthine, superlative most labyrinthine)
  1. Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze. Translations (physically resembling a labyrinth): laberíntic (Catalan), als een doolhof [masculine] (Dutch), sokkeloinen (Finnish), labyrinttikuvioinen (Finnish), labyrinthique [feminine, masculine] (French), labyrinthartig (German), λαβυρινθώδης (lavyrinthódis) (Greek), δαιδαλώδης (daidalódis) (Greek), labirintico (Italian), labiryntowy (Polish), labiríntico (Portuguese), лабиринтообразный (labirintoobraznyj) (Russian), laberíntico (Spanish), labyrintisk (Swedish), labürenik (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-labyrinthine-en-adj-9h7H~muH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 47 16 Disambiguation of 'physically resembling a labyrinth': 72 23 6
  2. (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear. Categories (topical): Anatomy Synonyms: labyrinthal, labyrinthial, labyrinthian, labyrinthic, labyrinthical, labyrinthiform Translations (relating to the inner ear): 迷路的 (mílù de) (Chinese Mandarin), labirintico (Italian)
    Sense id: en-labyrinthine-en-adj-s7NUMQqN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 47 16 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'relating to the inner ear': 14 80 6
  3. (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: baffling, confusing, convoluted Translations (twisting, convoluted, baffling): laberíntic (Catalan), ingewikkeld (Dutch), verwarrend (Dutch), monimutkainen (Finnish), rönsyilevä (Finnish), labyrinttimäinen (Finnish), sekava (Finnish), पेचीदा (pecīdā) (Hindi), labirintico (Italian), labiríntico (Portuguese), запутанный (zaputannyj) (Russian), сло́жный (slóžnyj) (Russian), мудрёный (mudrjónyj) [informal] (Russian), тру́дный для понимания (trúdnyj dlja ponimanija) (Russian), laberíntico (Spanish), labyrintisk (Swedish), förvillande (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-labyrinthine-en-adj-FuOOZAzv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ine Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 47 16 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ine: 30 31 39 Disambiguation of 'twisting, convoluted, baffling': 7 10 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: intralabyrinthine, labyrinthine artery, labyrinthinely, nonlabyrinthine, perilabyrinthine, retrolabyrinthine, translabyrinthine Related terms: labyrinth, labyrinthal, labyrinthed, labyrinthial, labyrinthian, labyrinthic, labyrinthical, labyrinthically, labyrinthiform

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          "ref": "1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, volume 14, number 158, page 670",
          "text": "As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Venkataraman Srinivasan, André Dubois, “Non-Human Primates”, in Steen Lindkær Jensen, Hans Gregerson, Mohammad Hosein Shokouh-Amin, Frank G. Moody, editors, Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology, page 27/4",
          "text": "In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lincoln Child, Deep Storm, section 29, page 185",
          "text": "Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Physically",
          "physically"
        ],
        [
          "labyrinth",
          "labyrinth"
        ],
        [
          "maze",
          "maze"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "labyrinth",
          "labyrinth"
        ],
        [
          "inner ear",
          "inner ear"
        ]
      ],
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        "(anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "labyrinthal"
        },
        {
          "word": "labyrinthial"
        },
        {
          "word": "labyrinthian"
        },
        {
          "word": "labyrinthic"
        },
        {
          "word": "labyrinthical"
        },
        {
          "word": "labyrinthiform"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1996 September 13, Roger Ebert, “American Buffalo movie review (1996)”, in Roger Ebert",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Joseph Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, page 51",
          "text": "Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Michael W. Riley, Plato's Cratylus: Argument, Form, and Structure, page 103",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 12, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […]",
          "text": "Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing."
      ],
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          "convoluted"
        ],
        [
          "baffling",
          "baffling"
        ],
        [
          "confusing",
          "confusing"
        ],
        [
          "perplexing",
          "perplexing"
        ]
      ],
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        "(figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing."
      ],
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        {
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        },
        {
          "word": "confusing"
        },
        {
          "word": "convoluted"
        }
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlæb.əˈɹɪn.θɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlæb.əˈɹɪnˌθaɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌlæb.əˈɹɪnˌθin/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪnθɪn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪnθiːn"
    },
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "laberíntic"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "als een doolhof"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "sokkeloinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labyrinttikuvioinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "labyrinthique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labyrinthartig"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "lavyrinthódis",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "λαβυρινθώδης"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "daidalódis",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "δαιδαλώδης"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labirintico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labiryntowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labiríntico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "labirintoobraznyj",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "лабиринтообразный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "laberíntico"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labyrintisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "physically resembling a labyrinth",
      "word": "labürenik"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mílù de",
      "sense": "relating to the inner ear",
      "word": "迷路的"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "relating to the inner ear",
      "word": "labirintico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "laberíntic"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "ingewikkeld"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "verwarrend"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "monimutkainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "rönsyilevä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "labyrinttimäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "sekava"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pecīdā",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "पेचीदा"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "labirintico"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "labiríntico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zaputannyj",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "запутанный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slóžnyj",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "сло́жный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mudrjónyj",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "мудрёный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trúdnyj dlja ponimanija",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "тру́дный для понимания"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "laberíntico"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "labyrintisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "twisting, convoluted, baffling",
      "word": "förvillande"
    }
  ],
  "word": "labyrinthine"
}

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