Complicated vs Labyrinthine - What's the difference?
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Difficult or convoluted.
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(Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
(complicate)
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
* 2011 , Lincoln Child, Deep Storm , page 185
Twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
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* 2000 , Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation , page 51
* 2005 , Michael W. Riley, "Plato's Cratylus: Argument, form, and structure", page 103
As adjectives the difference between complicated and labyrinthine
is that complicated is difficult or convoluted while labyrinthine is physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.As a verb complicated
is past tense of complicate.complicated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
Antonyms
* simpleVerb
(head)- The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.
labyrinthine
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
- Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.
- Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.
- 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 .