1. A complex, intricate, or unnecessarily complicated method or procedure that is difficult to understand or follow
The company's approval process uses a convoluted method that requires signatures from five different departments.
O processo de aprovação da empresa usa um método convoluto que requer assinaturas de cinco departamentos diferentes.
2. A roundabout or indirect way of achieving something that could be accomplished more simply
He explained the solution through such a convoluted method that nobody understood it.
Ele explicou a solução através de um método convoluto que ninguém compreendeu.