Labyrinthine
adjective
Like a maze or complicated network.
We navigated through the labyrinthine streets of the old city.
Often appears as...
- labyrinthine streets
- labyrinthine tunnels
adjective
Involving many confusing and complicated details.
The labyrinthine logic of her argument lost the audience.
Often appears as...
- labyrinthine rules
- labyrinthine bureaucracy
adjective
Like a maze or complicated network.
We navigated through the labyrinthine streets of the old city.
Often appears as...
- labyrinthine streets
- labyrinthine tunnels
adjective
Involving many confusing and complicated details.
The labyrinthine logic of her argument lost the audience.
Often appears as...
- labyrinthine rules
- labyrinthine bureaucracy
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Spaces
Refers to actual physical locations, often ones you can walk through.
The museum's labyrinthine layout confused the tourists.
Pro Tip 2/3Challenging Navigation
Suggests difficulty in moving through due to complexity.
They lost their way in the labyrinthine corridors of the castle.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Can describe complex systems, not just physical places.
The website's labyrinthine design made it hard to find information.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Spaces
Refers to actual physical locations, often ones you can walk through.
The museum's labyrinthine layout confused the tourists.
Pro Tip 2/3Challenging Navigation
Suggests difficulty in moving through due to complexity.
They lost their way in the labyrinthine corridors of the castle.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Can describe complex systems, not just physical places.
The website's labyrinthine design made it hard to find information.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Spaces
Refers to actual physical locations, often ones you can walk through.
The museum's labyrinthine layout confused the tourists.
Pro Tip 2/3Challenging Navigation
Suggests difficulty in moving through due to complexity.
They lost their way in the labyrinthine corridors of the castle.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Can describe complex systems, not just physical places.
The website's labyrinthine design made it hard to find information.
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Video examples
Thom Mayne: Architecture...
that I think the creative process in architecture, the design process, is extremely circuitous. It's labyrinthine. It's Calvino's idea of the quickest way between two points is the circuitous line, not the straight line. And definitely my life has been part of that. I'm going to start with some simple kind of
Video examples
Are we born to run? -...
and the Aztecs engaged which is why there are very few mines and Aztecs doTERRA Mata had a different strategy they took off and hid in this labyrinthine networking kind of spider webbing system of canyons called the copper canyons and there they've
Video examples
Thom Mayne: Architecture...
that I think the creative process in architecture, the design process, is extremely circuitous. It's labyrinthine. It's Calvino's idea of the quickest way between two points is the circuitous line, not the straight line. And definitely my life has been part of that. I'm going to start with some simple kind of
Video examples
Are we born to run? -...
and the Aztecs engaged which is why there are very few mines and Aztecs doTERRA Mata had a different strategy they took off and hid in this labyrinthine networking kind of spider webbing system of canyons called the copper canyons and there they've
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Sam Weller
American Author
Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
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Mark Waters
American Director
Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.
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David Remnick
American Journalist
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian Leader
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Quote examples
Sophie Hannah
British Poet
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
Quote examples
Sam Weller
American Author
Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
Quote examples
Mark Waters
American Director
Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.
Quote examples
David Remnick
American Journalist
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone.
Quote examples
Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian Leader
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Quote examples
Sophie Hannah
British Poet
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
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