Intricate
['ɪntrɪkət]
Definition
(adj.) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; 'intricate lacework' .
Checker: Olga--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
(v. t.) To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
Checker: Myrna
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Entangled, complicated, involved, perplexed, obscure, difficult.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Complicated, involved, mazy, labyrinthine, entangled, tortuous
ANT:Simple, uninvolved, plain, direct, obvious
Editor: Rodney
Definition
adj. involved: entangled: perplexed.—ns. In′tricacy In′tricateness.—adv. In′tricately.
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Examples
- It was something other, deeper, more intricate than he guessed at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And yet it all depends on the toilful conquest of a subtle and intricate art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The intricate and pretentious art of diplomacy developed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is a dark and intricate story of treacheries, cruelties, and hate, in which the death of the wily Histi?us shines almost cheerfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If she had succeeded in doing so, the intricate knot which I was slowly and patiently operating on might perhaps have been cut by circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The problem whether organisation on the whole has advanced is in many ways excessively intricate. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This proved to be a most knotty and intricate puzzle--tricky and evasive--always leading on and promising something, and at the last slipping away leaving the work undone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It played a part in the story of the intricate Histi?us (chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At night, however, and out of working hours, few faucets are open, less water is drawn off at any one time, and the intricate pipes are constantly full of water under high pressure. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This, in its latest form known as the gearless traction elevator, does away with all intricate machinery, and yields a machine moving with equal speed whatever the height. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No intricate machinery is needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The enemy's lines were very strong and very intricate. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- From one fruitless care, it was turned away to another care much more intricate, much more embarrassing, and just equally fruitless. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- One branch, either of foreign or domestic trade, cannot well be a much more intricate business than another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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