Complication
[kɒmplɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑmplɪ'keʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act or process of complicating.
(noun.) a development that complicates a situation; 'the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications'.
(noun.) a situation or condition that is complex or confused; 'her coming was a serious complication'.
(noun.) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; 'bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis'.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
(n.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Complexity, intricacy, entanglement.
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Examples
- It may turn to infection--but no such deplorable complication had taken place when I left Blackwater Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I don't say that he is not an honourable man, out of all this complication and uncertainty; I am sure he is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Plymdale was in a situation which caused her some complication of feeling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When Mr. Steffens approached the vast confusion and complication of big business, he needed some hypothesis to guide him through that maze of facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Whenever I saw him directing the driver, I was prepared for our descending into a deeper complication of such streets, and we never failed to do so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An interesting class of machines, but one impossible of illustration on account of their complication, are machines for making pins. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mr Boffin's face denoted Care and Complication. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr Twemlow's dry and hollow cheeks become more dry and hollow at the prospect of some new complication. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Her first movement was one of annoyance: this unforeseen act of Selden's added another complication to life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Unless there turn out to be further complications, such as I have not at present detected--yes, said Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It involved mechanical complications that seemed to be insurmountable, and up to the time Edison invented his perforating machine no really good method was available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Plato does not appear to have analysed the complications which arise out of the collective action of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- It is difficult to decide as to the possible effect of long-standing complications; but the man had a robust constitution to begin with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To all other emergencies and complications my natural capacity for grappling, single-handed, with circumstances, was invariably equal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But we cannot go further into these complications of Asiatic theology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Look at what complications of numbers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Enough, enough--there was an end to man's capacity for complications, even. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I don't deny that there are peculiar complications in this case; but the case itself is, most unhappily, common--common. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Look at what complications. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These are complications beyond our present scope. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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