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complicated definition

com·pli·cated (-kāt′id)

adjective

made up of parts intricately involved; hard to untangle, solve, understand, analyze, etc.

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complicated

modif.

intricate, complex, involved; see complex 2, confused 2, difficult 2. See syn. study at complex.


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complicated Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • unnecessarily: The process of complaining is a sham, made unnecessarily complicated.

Preposition: by

  • fact: The matter becomes further complicated by the fact that many businesses operate various credit systems with regard to payments.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Teachers can edit the slides to make the timeline more complicated or easier.

Modifies a noun

  • jargon: No complicated legal jargon, our conveyancers will guide you through the whole process in a straightforward manner using plain English.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: These don't seem complicated, yet many organizations are opting to buy network support rather than maintain expertise in-house.
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complicated quotes

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

-Anderson, Poul William

Just don't get too complicated Eddie.When a guy gets too complicated he's unhappy. And when he's unhappyöhis luck runs out.

-Chandler, Raymond

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

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