complicated Definition

complicate
verb

complicated, complicating
1. To add difficulties or intricacies to something; to make complex or involved.

Thesaurus: confuse, involve, compound, entangle, elaborate, embroil, muddle, snarl, knot; Antonym: simplify.

Etymology: 17c: from Latin complicare, complicatum to fold together.

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complicated
adj

1. Difficult to understand or deal with.

Thesaurus: problematic, difficult, perplexing, puzzling, tortuous, troublesome.
2. Intricate; complex.

Thesaurus: complex, intricate, elaborate, involved, manifold, convoluted.
3. Said of a fracture in a bone: accompanied by damage to surrounding tissue.