labyrinthine

1. (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.

2. (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.Examples: "Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat."; "Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind."; "By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus."Synonyms: baffling, confusing, convolutedfiguratively