Meaning & use
convoluted
Extremely complex and difficult to follow.
See it in a sentence
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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