Byzantine in a sentence as a noun

"I always find it amusing that, when big companies keep adding people and byzantine processes to a project, it's so they can "get stuff done.

That's the point the grandparent is making - if you look at pretty much any successful, evolving software system under the hood, you'll see a byzantine mess of complexity, and it's a wonder that it ever works.

Byzantine in a sentence as an adjective

The entirety of C++ initialization rules has become a byzantine mess of epic proportions and any change is bound to add another level of combinatorial explosion.

Byzantine definitions

noun

a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

See also: Byzantine

adjective

of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites"

See also: Byzantine

adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

See also: Byzantine

adjective

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "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"

See also: Byzantine convoluted involved knotty tangled tortuous