complicated
Pronunciation
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɪd/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/
Adjective

complicated

  1. Difficult or convoluted.
    It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
    • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
      Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  2. (biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
Antonyms Translations Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of complicate
    The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.



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