labyrinthine

adj

Etymology: From labyrinth + -ine from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (lăbúrĭnthos, “a maze”).

1. Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.

   “As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.”

   “In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.”

2. Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
3. Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.

   “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.”