What is the meaning of convoluted?

verb

• Curl, wind, or twist together.
  • synonyms: convolve, convolute
• Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
  • usage: "Don't twist my words"
  • synonyms: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate

adjective

• Rolled longitudinally upon itself.
  • usage: "a convolute petal"
  • synonyms: convolute
• Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous