complicated

1. 1
   adjective

   Hard to understand or deal with because it has many connected parts.

   Like a knot with so many loops that you cannot find the end.

   Filing taxes by hand can get surprisingly complicated.

   The instructions were so complicated that nobody could follow them.

   Similarcomplex, intricate, convoluted, involved, tangled

   Oppositesimple, straightforward, easy, uncomplicated

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2. 2
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of complicate. Use this form for something that was made harder in the past.

   The extra rules complicated everything for the new students.

   Bad weather complicated their travel plans last week.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Folded along its length, like the wings of some insects.

   Like a piece of paper folded in half the long way.

   The moth's complicated wings folded flat along their middle line.

   Each delicate wing was complicated, pressed together down its center.

   Similarfolded

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