Meaning & use

convoluted

adjective·Advanced

Extremely complex and difficult to follow.

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The instructions were so convoluted that nobody could assemble the shelf correctly.

His convoluted explanation only confused the jury further.

A note on using this word

Convoluted often criticizes something for being needlessly complicated, not just genuinely complex.

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Words with an opposite meaning

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