nnoun.persona native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine EmpireMember 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 itExamples:- 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 ByzantiumPertainyms:Byzantine Empire
Inherited Hypernyms:byzantine
adj satadj.allhighly complex or intricate and occasionally deviousSynset: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