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complicated

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com·pli·cat·ed  (kmpl-ktd)
adj.
1. Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
2. Not easy to understand or analyze. See Synonyms at complex, elaborate.
compli·cated·ly adv.
compli·cated·ness n.
complicated
Adjective
difficult to understand or deal with
USAGE: See at complex.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.complicated - difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"
complex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
complicated
adjective 1. involved, difficult, puzzling, troublesome, problematic, perplexing << OPPOSITE simple
adjective 2. complex, involved, elaborate, intricate, Byzantine << OPPOSITE understandable
adjective 3. (of an attitudes) convoluted, labyrinthine see see, complex
Translations
complicated [ˈkɔmplɪkeɪtɪd] adj → complicado
complicated [ˈkɔmplɪkeɪtɪd] complicate adj → compliqué(e)
complicated [ˈkɔmplɪkeɪtɪd] complicate adj → kompliziert
complicated [ˈkɔmplɪkeɪtɪd] adj → complicato/a


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The affair seemed to grow more complicated, and the Colonel, with his expletives and his indignation, confused rather than informed me.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight--all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world.
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Nor were poets and romancers from over sea--in their seeming simple paper covers, but with, oh, such complicated and subtle insides
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