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complex
adjective as in involved, intricate
adjective as in difficult to understand
Weak matches
- Daedalean
- Gordian
- abstruse
- bewildering
- circuitous
- confused
- crabbed
- cryptic
- discursive
- disordered
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- mixed
- muddled
- paradoxical
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
noun as in composite, aggregate
noun as in psychological problem
Example Sentences
Philip’s first role is quite complex: He plays a Canadian man getting married to a young Japanese woman in a show wedding for her conservative parents.
Your rollover concern, for better or for worse, is complex.
But Mr. Waterfield advances a sound and coherent interpretation of Thucydides’ complex style and ideas.
In the aftermath of the two world wars, Coleridge-Taylor’s music—like that of other late Victorian and Edwardian composers—was seen as old-fashioned and insufficiently complex.
We hold on to each other in this complex phase of life and in this vibrant, complex town.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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