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Synonyms for Byzantine
ˈbɪz ənˌtin, -ˌtaɪn, ˈbaɪ zən-, bɪˈzæn tɪnbyzan·tine
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Princeton's WordNet
Byzantineadjective
a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
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simpleByzantineadjective
of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
"Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"
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involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangledAntonyms:
simpleByzantineadjective
of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
Synonyms:
involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangledAntonyms:
simpleByzantine, 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, snarledAntonyms:
simple
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1376 | involved | |
#4924 | tough | |
#14880 | winding | |
#14988 | problematic | |
#20139 | elusive | |
#21707 | byzantine | |
#23795 | twisting | |
#25735 | tangled | |
#37075 | knotted | |
#41131 | convoluted | |
#50345 | voluminous | |
#53611 | baffling | |
#55672 | mired | |
#61101 | twisty | |
#68031 | knotty | |
#72606 | tortuous | |
#79304 | snarled | |
#89990 | gnarly | |
#99916 | gnarled | |
#107333 | problematical | |
#233953 | convolute | |
#273936 | knobbed |
How to use Byzantine in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
But I don’t know that I can read 2,000 pages that’s rather Byzantine.
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.
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