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)
  • devious,
  • paradoxical,
  • detailed,
  • mazy.

• n.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • involute,
  • Daedalian.
  •construction
  • architecture.
  •Other relevant words:
  • snakelike,
  • geographical region,
  • catholic church,
  • sly,
  • gnarled,
  • guileful,
  • fancy,
  • labourer,
  • cottage,
  • enigmatic,
  • insidious,
  • elusive,
  • decorative,
  • baroque,
  • sinuous,
  • Subtile,
  • ornamental,
  • fouled up,
  • crooked,
  • calculating,
  • complicate,
  • flamboyant,
  • slick,
  • gingerbread,
  • mystifying,
  • serpentine,
  • embroidered,
  • goudy,
  • baffling,
  • architectural,
  • entangled,
  • compound,
  • roundabout,
  • Ramified,
  • problematic,
  • ostentatious,
  • foxy,
  • Tangly,
  • Bravura,
  • maze-like,
  • confounded,
  • implicated,
  • wily,
  • conspicuous,
  • confounding,
  • problematical,
  • crabbed,
  • masted,
  • Contriving,
  • snarled,
  • geographic region,
  • twisting,
  • sophisticated,
  • garish,
  • multifarious,
  • indirect,
  • balled-up,
  • over-decorated,
  • fanfare,
  • scheming,
  • disconcerting,
  • unfathomable,
  • bewildering,
  • knobbed,
  • flabbergasting,
  • perplexed,
  • daedalean,
  • showy,
  • collusive,
  • Connivent,
  • recondite,
  • ambagious,
  • impenetrable,
  • florid,
  • Stratagemical,
  • pretentious,
  • decorated,
  • twisty,
  • crafty,
  • intriguing,
  • Wilf,
  • knotted,
  • loused up,
  • mired,
  • oriental,
  • stupefying,
  • geographic area,
  • perplexing,
  • Involuted,
  • busy,
  • designing,
  • canny,
  • vermicular,
  • shrewd,
  • puzzling,
  • laborious,
  • conniving,
  • rococo,
  • gnarly,
  • many-faceted,
  • screwed up,
  • subtle,
  • cunning,
  • mixed-up,
  • mucked up,
  • Plotting,
  • gordian,
  • labyrinthian,
  • Snaking,
  • fussy,
  • embellished,
  • arcane,
  • up to,
  • ornamented,
  • vermiculate,
  • Conspiring,
  • winding,
  • laboured,
  • pawky,
  • knowing,
  • meandering,
  • flashy,
  • twisted,
  • arabesque,
  • tough,
  • fanciful,
  • convolute,
  • matted,
  • snarly,
  • anfractuous,
  • style,
  • show-off,
  • extravagant,
  • voluminous,
  • gaudy,
  • geographical area,
  • SWY,
  • ornate.

Holonyms for Byzantine:

• n.

  • person
    byzantium, byzantine empire, eastern roman empire.

Hyponym for Byzantine:

• n.

  • person
    asian, asiatic.