adjective
1. : folded in curved or tortuous windings : having convolutions : coiled
a highly convoluted brain — No. American Review
beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn — Thomas Pennant
2. : complicated and involved
convoluted form
his convoluted later stories have more layers of meaning … than Henry James' — DeLancey Ferguson
: having intricate and complexly related detail
a convoluted process of reasoning