complicated

3 definitions found

complicated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Complicating.]
     To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make
     complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or
     difficult.
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           Nor can his complicated sinews fail.     --Young.
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           Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated
           principle of action.                     --Addison.
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           When the disease is complicated with other diseases.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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complicated - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  complicated
      adj 1: difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated
             problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

complicated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "complicated":
     Byzantine, Daedalian, abstruse, arduous, balled up, beyond one,
     complex, compound, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed,
     cramp, daedal, devious, difficult, elaborate, embrangled,
     entangled, fancy, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hard,
     hard to understand, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved,
     jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up,
     many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up,
     mucked up, multifarious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, ornate,
     overtechnical, perplexed, ramified, recondite, roundabout,
     scrambled, screwed up, snarled, sophisticated, subtle, tangled,
     tangly, tough, twisted