Complicate
['kɒmplɪkeɪt] or ['kɑmplɪket]
Definition
(verb.) make more complex, intricate, or richer; 'refine a design or pattern'.
(verb.) make more complicated; 'There was a new development that complicated the matter'.
Editor: Vicky--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
(a.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
(v. t.) To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
Editor: Ramon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Involve, entangle, make complex, make intricate.
a. Complex, complicated.
Editor: Sweeney
Definition
v.t. to twist or plait together: to render complex: to entangle.—adj. complex: involved.—n. Com′plicacy the quality or state of being complicated.—adj. Com′plicated intricate confused.—n. Complicā′tion an intricate blending or entanglement.—adj. Com′plicative tending to complicate.—Complicated fracture a fracture where there is some other injury (e.g. a flesh wound not communicating with the fracture a dislocation a rupture of a large blood-vessel); Complication of diseases a number of diseases present at the same time.
Edited by Della
Examples
- A shape hitherto unnoticed, stirred, rose, came forward: a shape inharmonious with the environment, serving only to complicate the riddle further. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Notwithstanding its simple action, its structure is complicated by a large amount of adding mechanism. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But I wasn't crazy in any complicated manner. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- His business affairs had become complicated during the strike, and required closer attention than he had given to them last winter. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It would be impossible to transplant the Aristophanic comedy to England, for modern civilization is too complicated to admit of such free speaking. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But to-day being Saturday rather complicates matters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We have enough work and enough things that will be done without complicating it with chicken-crut. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Jacqueline