Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- difficult to analyze, understand, explain, etc.: a complicated problem.
verb (used with object), com·pli·cat·ed, com·pli·cat·ing.
- to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
adjective
- complex; involved.
- Entomology. folded longitudinally one or more times, as the wings of certain insects.
adjective
- made up of intricate parts or aspects that are difficult to understand or analyse
verb (ˈkɒmplɪˌkeɪt)
- to make or become complex
adjective (ˈkɒmplɪkɪt)
- biology folded on itselfa complicate leaf
- a less common word for complicated
1640s, “tangled,” from past participle adjective from complicate. Figurative meaning “not easy to solve, intricate, confused, difficult to unravel” is from 1650s.
1620s, “to intertwine” (as a past participle adjective, early 15c.), from Latin complicatus “folded together; confused, intricate,” past participle of complicare (see complication). Meaning “to make more complex” is recorded from 1832, from earlier sense “to combine in a complex way” (17c.). Related: Complicated; complicating.