What does complicate mean?
Definitions for complicate
ˈkɒm plɪˌkeɪt; -kɪtcom·pli·cate
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Princeton's WordNet
complicate, perplexverb
make more complicated
"There was a new development that complicated the matter"
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborateverb
make more complex, intricate, or richer
"refine a design or pattern"
Wiktionary
complicateverb
To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your education.
complicateverb
to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
complicateadjective
Intertwined.
complicateadjective
Complex, complicated.
Etymology: From complicatus, past participle of complicare, from com- + plicare; see plaid, and compare complex
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Complicateadjective
Compounded of a multiplicity of parts.
Etymology: from the verb.
What pleasure would felicitate his spirit, if he could grasp all in a survey; as a painter runs over a complicate piece wrought by Titian or Raphael. Isaac Watts, Improv. of the Mind.
To COMPLICATEverb
Etymology: complico, Latin.
Though the particular actions of war are complicate in fact, yet they are separate and distinct in right. Francis Bacon.
In case our offence against God hath been complicated with injury to men, we should make restitution. John Tillotson, Sermons.
When the disease is complicated with other diseases, one must consider that which is most dangerous. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.
There are a multitude of human actions, which have so many complicated circumstances, aspects, and situations, with regard to time and place, persons and things, that it is impossible for any one to pass a right judgment concerning them, without entering into most of these circumstances. Isaac Watts.
Commotion in the parts may make them apply themselves one to another, or complicate and dispose them after the manner requisite to make them stick. Robert Boyle, History of Firmness.
Dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the hall! thick swarming now
With complicated monsters, head and tail. John Milton, Par. Lost.A man, an army, the universe, are complicated of various simple ideas, or complex ideas made up of simple ones. John Locke.
ChatGPT
complicate
To complicate means to make something more difficult to understand, analyze, or deal with by introducing various elements, factors, or details. It can also refer to causing additional problems or issues in an already challenging situation.
Webster Dictionary
Complicateadjective
composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved
Complicateadjective
folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise
Complicateverb
to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult
Etymology: [L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Complicate
kom′pli-kāt, v.t. to twist or plait together: to render complex: to entangle.—adj. complex: involved.—n. Com′plicacy, the quality or state of being complicated.—adj. Com′plicated, intricate, confused.—n. Complicā′tion, an intricate blending or entanglement.—adj. Com′plicative, tending to complicate.—Complicated fracture, a fracture where there is some other injury (e.g. a flesh wound not communicating with the fracture, a dislocation, a rupture of a large blood-vessel); Complication of diseases, a number of diseases present at the same time. [L. com, together, and plicāre, -ātum, to fold.]
Entomology
Complicate
longitudinally laid in folds: intricate as opposed to simple.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of complicate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of complicate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of complicate in a Sentence
Does( an apparent) rise in incivility complicate problem-solving and lawmaking, more so than ideological divides between the two parties ? or does a rise in incivility merely reflect the increased partisan combustion we see every day on Capitol Hill ?
It may complicate it, but it will not stop it, The army's crackdown is fuelling hatred among residents of Sinai. Unfortunately, the impact is being felt in Gaza, whose people are paying the price for an internal struggle.
If the Russians are indeed increasing their military presence in Syria, that would certainly complicate that.
Obviously we’re in favor of repealing the individual mandate, but we didn’t want to needlessly complicate the passage of tax reform, so we want to see the Senate go first and see if they can get that done and then we’ll discuss whether or not it gets included at the end [in conference].
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
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- عقد, تعقدArabic
- усложнявамBulgarian
- komplikovatCzech
- komplizierenGerman
- komplikiEsperanto
- complicarSpanish
- compliquerFrench
- cuir tro-chèileScottish Gaelic
- סיבךHebrew
- complicareItalian
- 複雑にするJapanese
- complicerenDutch
- complicarPortuguese
- complicaRomanian
- осложнять, усложнить, осложнить, усложнятьRussian
- ускладнитиUkrainian
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