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单词 byzantine
释义
Byzantine
nnoun.persona native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
Member Holonyms:Byzantine Empire Byzantium Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium
Hypernyms:Asian Asiatic
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantineasianinhabitantpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantineasianinhabitantpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantineasianperson of colorpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantineasianperson of colorpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
adjadj.pertof or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
Examples:
  • Byzantine monks
  • Byzantine rites
Pertainyms:Eastern Orthodox Church
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantine
adjadj.pertof or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
Pertainyms:Byzantine Empire
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantine
adj satadj.allhighly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Synset:Byzantine convoluted involved knotty tangled tortuous
Examples:
  • 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
Derivationally Related Form:knottinesstortuousness
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantine
Similar to:complex
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