made up of parts intricately involved; hard to untangle, solve, understand, analyze, etc.
adjective
- A romantic relationship that involves more than two people is an example of complicated.
- A Rubik's Cube is an example of a complicated puzzle.
The definition of complicated is someone or something that is hard to understand or something that is hard to untangle.
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complicated
adjective
- Containing intricately combined or involved parts. See Synonyms at complex.
- Not easy to understand or analyze because of being intricate: a complicated personality.
Related Forms:
- com′pli·cat′ed·ly
adverb
- com′pli·cat′ed·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more complicated, superlative most complicated)
- difficult or convoluted
- It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- (Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects)
Verb
- 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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Sentence Examples
- If it doesn't look too complicated, maybe I can fix it.
- The dispositions were very complicated and difficult.
- It all sounds a bit complicated to me.
- Things were getting complicated here and the mountains were calling.
- Life is complicated; you can't let it stop you from living.
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WORDS NEAR complicated IN THE DICTIONARY
- complicated
- compliant
- compliantly
- complicacy