Labyrinthine

Definitions: Labyrinthine

Labyrinthine

Adjective

1. Relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear; "labyrinthine deafness".

2. Resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths".

3. 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".

Date "labyrinthine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	Referring to the labyrinth of the inner ear which acts as an acceleration sensor. (references)
Health	A vestibular nystagmus resulting from stimulation, injury, or disease of the labyrinth. (references)
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Synonyms: Labyrinthine

Synonyms: convoluted (adj), intricate (adj), involved (adj), knotty (adj), labyrinthian (adj), mazy (adj), tangled (adj), tortuous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Convolution	Involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian; kinky, knotted.
Difficulty	Awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn; (obstinate); perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine; (convoluted); intricate, complicated; (tangled); impracticable; (impossible); not feasible; desperate; (hopeless).
Secret	Adjective: secret; (concealed); involved labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Labyrinthine

English words defined with "labyrinthine": Byzantine ♦ convoluted ♦ intricate, involved ♦ knotty ♦ labyrinthian, labyrinthine artery, labyrinthine sense, labyrinthine vein ♦ mazy, membranous labyrinth ♦ tangled, tortuous ♦ vestibular apparatus, vestibular system. (references)

Specialty definitions using "labyrinthine": labyrinthine nystagmus, leans. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Sounds like young Arnold's got another one of his complex labyrinthine conundrums of a boyhood problem. (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Lu�s Filipe Rocha)
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Domain	Title
Books	Dance of Being: Man's Labyrinthine Rhythms, the Natural Ground of the Human (reference) Peter Ackroyd: The Ludic and Labyrinthine Text (reference) The labyrinthine nest : the art of Doris Bloom (reference) The Labyrinthine Ways of Graham Greene (reference) (more book examples)
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"Labyrinthine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "Labyrinthine" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	80.95%	34	59,261
Noun (singular)	19.05%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

Expressions using "labyrinthine": involved labyrinthine ♦ labyrinthine artery ♦ Labyrinthine Fluids ♦ labyrinthine nystagmus ♦ labyrinthine sense ♦ labyrinthine vein. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "labyrinthine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		si labirint (daedal, daedalian), i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, entangled, haywire, immersed, involved, knotty, mixed, muddy, tangly, tricky, woozy), i ndërlikuar (chequered, complicated, convoluted, daedal, daedalian, elaborate, intricate, involute, sophisticated, tricky, vexing). (various references)

Arabic		‏كالمتاهة, ‏متاهي. (various references)

Bulgarian		заплетен (anfractuous, complex, convoluted, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, mazy, sinuous, tangly, tortuous), подобен на лабиринт. (various references)

Chinese		迷宫 (labyrinth, maze). (various references)

Czech		labyrintový. (various references)

Danish		ligevægtsnerve (labyrinthine nerve), labyrinthceller (labyrinthine cells), labyrintfistelsymptom (labyrinthine fistula symptom), labyrintanlaeg (labyrinthine anlage), labyrintanlæg (labyrinthine anlage), længerevarende svimmelhed (prolonged labyrinthine vertigo), vestibulær nystagmus (aural nystagmus, labyrinthine nystagmus), pars vestibularis nervi stato-acustici (labyrinthine nerve), hoejtonedoevhed (labyrinthine deafness), high tone loss (labyrinthine deafness), hårceller (labyrinthine cells), glaucoma auriculare (labyrinthine glaucoma), Ewald's labyrinttryksforsøg (Ewald labyrinthine test), diskantdoevhed (labyrinthine deafness). (various references)

Dutch		labirintaire nystagmus (aural nystagmus, labyrinthine nystagmus), nystagmus vestibularis (aural nystagmus, labyrinthine nystagmus), haarcellen (labyrinthine cells), glaucoma auriculare (labyrinthine glaucoma), evenwichtszenuw (labyrinthine nerve), discantdoofheid (labyrinthine deafness), aanleg van het labyrinth (labyrinthine anlage). (various references)

Finnish		sokkeloinen. (various references)

French		labyrinthique. (various references)

German		labyrinthisch (mazy), labyrinthähnlich. (various references)

Greek		λαβυρινθώδησ (mazy). (various references)

Hungarian		útvesztõszerû. (various references)

Italian		sordit� labirintica recettiva (labyrinthine deafness), sordit� labirintica pura (labyrinthine deafness), segno della fistola (labyrinthine fistula symptom), nistagmo vestibolare (aural nystagmus, labyrinthine nystagmus), nistagmo labirintico (aural nystagmus, labyrinthine nystagmus), ipoacusia labirintica (labyrinthine hypacousia), cofosi per i suoni alti (labyrinthine deafness), abbozzo labirintico (labyrinthine anlage). (various references)

Pig Latin		abyrinthinelay.(various references)

Portuguese		confuso (abrupt, abstruse, blear, cloudy, confused, disorderly, disturber, dizzy, hugger mugger, indistinguishable, intricate, jumbled up, lacklustre, mazy, medley, messy, mixed, muddy, obscure, pell mell, perplexed, promiscuous, rigmarole, rough and tumble, tangly, topsy turvy), cavidade do ouvido. (various references)

Russian		запутанный (anfractuous, complected, complicated, crinkum-crankum, Daedalian, embroiled, entangled, implex, inextricable, involved, knotty, mazy, perplexed, tangly), подобный лабиринту. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		labirintski. (various references)

Spanish		laberíntico (involved, rambling). (various references)

Swedish		labyrintisk (daedalian, labyrinthian, labyrinthic). (various references)

Turkish		labirent gibi, dolambaçlı (circuitous, circular, devious, indirect, oblique, roundabout, serpentine, shuffling, sinuous, tortuous, winding). (various references)

Ukranian		подібний до лабіринту. (various references)

Vietnamese		chẳng chịu khó khăn (labyrinthian, labyrinthic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Labyrinthine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: labrinthine, labyrinthing, labyrintine, labyrynthine. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "labyrinthine" (pronounced la'beri"nthē'n)
3	-th ē' n	ethene.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-i-l-n-n-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: breathily, inebriant, inhabiter, labyrinth, linearity, reinhabit, triennial.
	-4 letters: biennial, bilinear, binately, brainily, earthily, hairline, heartily, hibernal, hilarity, inertial, innately, interlay, internal, triennia.
	-5 letters: abhenry, ability, airline, aniline, anility, bairnly, benthal, biennia, bilayer, biliary, blarney, blather, blither, breathy, byliner, earthly, enthral, entrain, ethinyl, hairnet, halbert, hernial, hirable, hyaline, hyalite, inanely, inanity, inearth, inertia, inertly, inhabit, inhaler, inherit, inlayer, innerly, inthral, irately, lantern, lathery, lathier, latrine, liberty, librate, lintier, ninthly, nitrile, rainily, ratline, reality, reliant, retinal, riantly, tannery, tearily, tenably, thinner, tinnier, tinnily, trenail, triable.
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