Definition for Byzantine:

• A term describing any system that hasso many labyrinthine internal interconnections that it wouldbe impossible to simplify by separation into loosely coupledor linked components.The city of Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople and thenIstanbul, and the Byzantine Empire were vitiated by abureaucratic overelaboration bordering on lunacy: quadruplebanked agencies, dozens or even scores of superfluous levelsand officials with high flown titles unrelated to their actualfunction, if any.Access to the Emperor and his council was controlled bypowerful and inscrutable eunuchs and by rival sports factions.[ Edward Gibbon, " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"].

Synonyms for Byzantine:

• adj.

  •complex (adjective)
  • mazy,
  • paradoxical,
  • detailed,
  • inter-woven,
  • round-about,
  • devious.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • inter-laced,
  • more hi-tech,
  • more hitech,
  • gasser,
  • hi tech,
  • mega factor,
  • more difficult,
  • most hi tech,
  • more hi tech,
  • hitech,
  • more interlaced,
  • most interlaced,
  • most gasser,
  • most hitech,
  • more elaborate,
  • wheels within wheels,
  • more gasser,
  • hi-tech,
  • inter laced,
  • most hi-tech,
  • can worms.
  •oriental (adjective)
  • more japanese,
  • most chinese,
  • more chinese,
  • most japanese,
  • oriental,
  • more korean,
  • more asian,
  • most korean,
  • most asian.

• n.

  •Byzantine (noun)
  • artful,
  • involved,
  • convoluted,
  • tangled,
  • byzantine architecture,
  • tortuous,
  • labyrinthine,
  • knotty.
  •
  • contorted,
  • incomprehensible,
  • elaborate,
  • simple,
  • difficult,
  • confusing,
  • confused.
  •person (noun)
  • byzantine.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • involute,
  • Daedalian.
  •construction
  • architecture.

Byzantine Sentence Examples:

• Certainly it was guarded by a Byzantine instead of by a Gothic sentinel.

• When Rome fell, beneath the impact of the barbarian hordes, the Byzantine Empire, holding the gold - mines of Macedonia, Thrace, and Asia Minor, rose to a bought magnificence.

Holonyms for Byzantine:

• n.

  • person
    byzantium, byzantine empire, eastern roman empire.

Hyponym for Byzantine:

• n.

  • person
    asian, asiatic.