Synonyms for Byzantine
ˈbɪz ənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn, ˈbaɪ zən-, bɪˈzæn tɪnbyzan·tine

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1. Byzantineadjective

   a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

   Antonyms:
   simple

2. Byzantineadjective

   of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it

   "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangled

   Antonyms:
   simple

3. Byzantineadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangled

   Antonyms:
   simple

4. Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuousadjective

   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"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, problematical, twisty, convolute, twisting, winding, problematic, mired, gnarled, gnarly, tangled, knobbed, tough, knotted, elusive, snarly, voluminous, tortuous, convoluted, baffling, snarled

   Antonyms:
   simple

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1. Yana Tchekhanovetz:

   Christian pilgrims to the Land of Israel from all over the Byzantine Empire (Turkey, the Balkans, Greece and present-day Russia) would carry his icon to protect them from harm, it is probable that the ring belonged to a pilgrim who sought the protection of St. Nicholas on his travels.

2. Jeffery Isaacs:

   Bank of America's structure is so convoluted and Byzantine that looking from the outside it is very hard to identify the correct corporate parties.

3. Abu Rida:

   Our first thought is that the site is a cathedral or a church from the Byzantine period, during that era, there was a great interest among the Byzantine rulers to build churches in the Gaza Strip.

4. Mark Meadows:

   But I don’t know that I can read 2,000 pages that’s rather Byzantine.

5. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2:

   She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.