complicated

Modifying Another Word

• unnecessarily: The process of complaining is a sham, made unnecessarily complicated.
• overly: Now, I don't like overly complicated rules.
• needlessly: While running the Form Market, Chrissie notes the misery caused by needlessly complicated forms.
• fiendishly: About twenty kids, and a proportionate number of mothers were playing some fiendishly complicated party game on the grass.
• incredibly: It's an incredibly complicated search and experimentation process we go through in all of our projects to make sure they sound fantastic!
• immensely: The REACH law, seven years in the making, is immensely complicated and exceptionally controversial.

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.
• calculation: In Mathematics modules which involve complicated calculations you will be introduced to computer packages for carrying them out.
• formula: There are no pots to drift nor complicated formulas to compute to set DIP switch gain ranges.
• sleight: Often, complicated sleight of hand routines take many months or years of practice before you can experience the results.
• maneuver: Tango does not need to be flamboyant or crowded with complicated maneuvers designed to impress an audience.
• equation: The Kurds are the wild card in this complicated equation.

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.
• become: Here the ' simple ' question becomes much more complicated.
• sound: Q: That sounds very complicated, can you elaborate?
• get: Here, things get very complicated, very quickly.
• appear: A8 asylum seekers The situation for asylum seekers appears particularly complicated.
• look: The tree diagram is beginning to look rather complicated.