maze Definition

maze
noun

1. A confusing network of paths bordered by high walls or hedges, laid out in a garden as a puzzling diversion in which a person might become lost or disorientated.
2. Any confusingly complicated system, procedure, etc.

Thesaurus: labyrinth, intricacy, entanglement, convolution, puzzle, snarl, web, imbroglio.

Derivative: mazy
adj

Etymology: 14c; 13c as the maze in obsolete sense ‘delirium': related to amaze.