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labyrinthine
Part of speech: AdjectiveIntricate; perplexing. Also, labyrinthian, labyrinthic.
Usage examples "labyrinthine":- To follow him through the labyrinthine paths of investigation contained in the great array of laboratory note- books is to become involved in a mass of minutely detailed searches which seek to penetrate the inmost recesses of nature by an ultimate analysis of an infinite variety of parts. - "Edison, His Life and Inventions", Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin.
- An Indian who had undertaken to guide the party through the Notch proved faithless, and led them among labyrinthine gorges to the head of Israel's River, where he disappeared, after poisoning one of the troopers with a rattlesnake's fang. - "Tales Of Puritan Land Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Volume 4.", Charles M. Skinner.
- Price, the most judicious of landscape- gardeners, would scarcely have desired to alter arrangements which have quite enough of the varied and the picturesque to satisfy those who do not contend for eternal labyrinthine mazes and perpetually waving lines. - "Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay", Miss Emma Roberts.