1. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
   "convoluted legal language";
   - Byzantine, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous, labyrinthine
    
2. (botany) rolled longitudinally upon itself
   "a convoluted petal";
   - convolute

1. Curl, wind, or twist together
   "The vines convoluted around the trellis";
   - convolve
    
2. Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
   "The politician convoluted the facts to avoid blame";
   - twist, twist around, pervert, sophisticate [archaic]

See also: coiled, complex

Type of: bend, deform, denote, flex, refer, turn, twist

Encyclopedia: Convoluted