| Main Entry: |
complex |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
difficult to understand |
Synonyms: |
Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian,
abstruse, bewildering, circuitous,
complicated,
confused,
convoluted, crabbed,
cryptic,
discursive, disordered,
disturbing,
enigmatic, entangled, excursive,
hidden,
impenetrable,
inscrutable, interwoven,
intricate,
involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty,
labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled,
mixed, muddled,
obscure, paradoxical,
perplexing, puzzling,
rambling,
recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled,
sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable,
unfathomable, winding
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| Notes: |
something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
Antonyms: |
apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain
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