complicated

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  1. adjective Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
  2. adjective Not easy to understand or analyze. See Synonyms at complex, elaborate.

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  • [E] The burrowing process becomes more and more complicated, and sometimes dangerous. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • It is very complicated, as it requires one edge to be bevelled to a wedge shape, the other being grooved to include the wedge, thus opposing four raw surfaces, which are retained in contact by being transfixed by fine silk sutures 3.) —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • He, however, finally arranged that the protestant archbishop of Australia should rank above the catholic archbishop, and the protestant bishops before the catholic, throughout the colonies; that the titles of "your grace" and "my lord" should be accorded indifferently to both classes of bishops, but that the government should not, in official correspondence, recognise any title complicated with the name of any city or territory within the British dominions, not authorised by letters patent from the crown. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
  • But the table was as dirty as it was complicated, and the ordinary waiting reader could make nothing of it. —  Miss Mackenzie
  • The problems of glass and rugs were unusually complicated, and the interruptions to continuous thought more numerous than usual. —  Jewel Weed
 

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/ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɛd/
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