Word Meanings - MAZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

masast to fall into a slumber, masa to be continually busy, prate, chatter, Icel. masa to chatter, dial. Sw. masa to bask, be slow, work 1. A wild fancy; a confused notion. Chaucer. 2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty;

Additional info about word: MAZE

masast to fall into a slumber, masa to be continually busy, prate, chatter, Icel. masa to chatter, dial. Sw. masa to bask, be slow, work 1. A wild fancy; a confused notion. Chaucer. 2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment. 3. A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. "Quaint mazes on the wanton green." Shak. Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook. Wordaworth. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. Addison. Syn. -- Labyrinth; intricacy. See Labyrinth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAZE)

• Labyrinth
• Maze
• complexity
• bewilderment
• involution
• perplexity
• inexplicable
• difficulty

Related words: (words related to MAZE)

• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• 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.
• 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;
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• LABYRINTHODONT
  Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. -- n.
• 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
• LABYRINTHODONTA
  An extinct order of Amphibia, including the typical genus Labyrinthodon, and many other allied forms, from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic formations. By recent writers they are divided into two or more orders. See Stegocephala.
• LABYRINTHODON
  A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.
• LABYRINTHIBRANCH
  Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. -- n.
• PERPLEXITY
  The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.
• INEXPLICABLENESS
  A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.
• COMPLEXITY
  1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity. Burke. 2. That which is complex; intricacy; complication. Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson.
• SELF-INVOLUTION
  Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie.
• SUBINVOLUTION
  Partial or incomplete involution; as, subinvolution of the uterus.