Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
difficult to analyze or understand;
- Example: "a complicated problem"- Example: "complicated Middle East politics"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Complicating.]
To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make
complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or
difficult.
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Nor can his complicated sinews fail. --Young.
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Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated
principle of action. --Addison.
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When the disease is complicated with other diseases.
--Arbuthnot.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
complicated
adj 1: difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated
problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"