say it: KAHN-vuh-loo-tuhd
convoluted is an adjective meaning "rolled longitudinally upon itself". It carries 2 recorded senses.
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
“the Byzantine tax structure”
“Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship”
“convoluted legal language”
“convoluted reasoning”
“the plot was too involved”
“a knotty problem”
“got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering”
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave”
“tortuous legal procedures”
“tortuous negotiations lasting for months”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for convoluted come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.