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COMPLICATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Difficult to analyze or understand
Example:
he's more complex than he seems on the surface
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)
Derivation:
complicatedness (puzzling complexity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb complicate
Context examples:
A chief rationale for peer review is that rarely is just one person, or one closely working group, able to spot every mistake or weakness in a complicated piece of work.
(Peer Review, NCI Thesaurus)
It may be asymptomatic or complicated by hematuria, infections, or renal stones.
(Medullary Sponge Kidney, NCI Thesaurus)
They range from small and simple, like a blood glucose meter, to large and complicated, like a ventilator.
(Medical Device Safety, Food and Drug Administration)
Hard, involved or complicated, elaborate, having many parts.
(Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
A novel lipid-lowering agent with a complicated mechanism of action.
(Lifibrol, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers developed a synthetic version of the gene and through slow and complicated measures eventually introduce it to the pothos ivy so that every cell in the plant expressed the protein.
(Common Houseplant with Genetic Modification Can Remove Polluted Air, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Any other way would have been exceedingly complicated.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To a man who is struggling with a complicated burden of perplexity and disquiet, such a reception is trying, I assure you.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Life in the Northland was simplicity itself when compared with the complicated affairs of Sierra Vista.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Simplify your complicated interests, feelings, thoughts, wishes, aims; merge all considerations in one purpose: that of fulfilling with effect—with power—the mission of your great Master.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
