Antonyms 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"

   Antonyms:
   simple

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangled

3. Byzantineadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   simple

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangled

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"

   Antonyms:
   simple

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

How to use byzantine in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Jeb Bush:

   Currently, agents have to navigate byzantine environmental rules and regulations to access federal lands, removing these restrictions would help untie the hands of our agents to patrol every inch of the border.

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. 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.

5. Mark Meadows:

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

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