All daedalean synonyms

adj daedalean

• perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• sophisticated — sophisticated.
• complicated — If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with.
• convoluted — If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
• intricate — having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze.
• disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
• obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
• troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
• problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
• hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
• arduous — Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
• winding — the act of winding.
• byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
• abstruse — You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
• circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
• confused — If you are confused, you do not know exactly what is happening or what to do.
• cryptic — A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.
• discursive — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
• disordered — lacking organization or in confusion; disarranged.
• hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
• impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
• inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
• interwoven — to weave together, as threads, strands, branches, or roots.
• involved — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
• jumbled — to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.
• knotted — having knots; knotty.
• knotty — having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
• labyrinthine — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
• meandering — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
• mixed — put together or formed by mixing.
• muddled — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
• rambling — aimlessly wandering.
• recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
• sinuous — having many curves, bends, or turns; winding: a sinuous path.
• tangled — snarled, interlaced, or mixed up: tangled thread.
• tortuous — full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
• undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
• unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
• crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
• gordian — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
• bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
• mazy — full of confusing turns, passages, etc.; like a maze; labyrinthine.
• paradoxical — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
• can of worms — a complicated problem
• various — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
• gasser — Herbert Spencer, 1888–1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
• hi-tech — Of, or using high technology.