- Hard to deal with, complicated
They were in a tricky situation.
trickier, trickiest
- difficult or convoluted
It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- Complicated
He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots
a knotty pine
- (chiefly, anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute
He gave a convoluted explanation that amounted to little more than a weak excuse for his absence.
- that twists
lost in a twisty labyrinth
- having a great deal of fine detail or complexity
The architecture of this clock is very intricate.