Word Meanings - LABYRINTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The internal ear. See Note under Ear. (more info) 1. An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths. 2. Any intricate or involved

Additional info about word: LABYRINTH

The internal ear. See Note under Ear. (more info) 1. An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths. 2. Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden. 3. Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature. The serpent . . . fast sleeping soon he found, In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled. Milton. The labyrinth of the mind. Tennyson. 4. An inextricable or bewildering difficulty. I' the maze and winding labyrinths o' the world. Denham.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LABYRINTH)

• Jungle
• Thicket
• brake
• involution
• ravelling
• entanglement
• labyrinth
• wilderness
• Puzzle
• Embarrassment
• be wilderment
• enigma
• confusion
• conundrum
• intricacy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LABYRINTH)

• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to LABYRINTH)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• BRAKE
  of Break. Tennyson.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• BRAKEMAN
  A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• INVOLUTION
  The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• ENIGMATICALLY
  Darkly; obscurely.
• WILDERNESS
  1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or
• ILLUMINE
  To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
• JUNGLE
  A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• CANEBRAKE
  A thicket of canes. Ellicott.
• REILLUMINE
  To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• AIR BRAKE
  A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.
• UNEMBARRASSMENT
  Freedom from embarrassment.