• IPA: /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/

intricate

1. Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

   The architecture of this clock is very intricate.

   • May 4, 1715, Joseph Addison, The Freeloader No. 39

     His style of writing { […] was […] fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding […] with the utmost clearness.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

• French: compliqué, tortueux
• German: aufwendig, kompliziert, ausgeklügelt, raffiniert, kunstvoll, knifflig, verzwickt, vertrackt, verwickelt, filigran, diffizil
• Italian: intricato
• Portuguese: intrincado
• Russian: сло́жный
• Spanish: intrincado

• IPA: /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.keɪt/

intricate (intricates, present participle intricating; past and past participle intricated)

1. (intransitive) To become enmeshed or entangled.
   • 1864 October 18, J.E. Freund, “How to Avoid the Use of Lint ↗”, letter to the editor, in The New York Times (1864 October 23):

     […] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.

2. (transitive) To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
   • 1994 December 12, William Safire, “Avoid Dunkirk II ↗” (essay), in The New York Times:

     But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.