resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze; twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing, bamboozling
1996: 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. -- Review of American Buffalo, Roger Ebert.
highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
If you describe a situation, process, or field of knowledge as labyrinthine, you mean that it is very complicated and difficult to understand. his failure to understand the labyrinthine complexities of the situation
resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths" relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear; "labyrinthine deafness