involuted

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: in=vo=lut=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

involuted, a. [L. involutus, p. p. of involvere. See Involve.].

•  Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
•  Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

involuted, adj.
1 complicated, abstruse.
2 = INVOLUTE adj. 2.

THESAURUS

involuted

Byzantine, ambagious, anfractuous, balled up, circuitous, circumlocutory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, convolutional, crabbed, daedal, devious, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, flexuose, flexuous, fouled up, implicated, intricate, involute, involutional, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meandrous, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, perplexed, ramified, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screwed up, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy