Intricate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate. See Synonyms at elaborate.
  • adj. Solvable or comprehensible only with painstaking effort. See Synonyms at complex.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
  • v. To become enmeshed or entangled.
  • v. To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust
  • v. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Perplexingly involved or entangled; hard to disentangle or disengage, or to trace out; complicated; obscure: as, an intricate knot; the intricate windings of a labyrinth; intricate accounts; the intricate plot of a tragedy.
  • In entomology, having unequal elevations and depressions placed irregularly and close together, but without running into each other: said of a sculptured surface.
  • To render intricate or involved; make perplexing or obscure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
  • Equivalent
    complex   
    Verb Form
    intricated   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    complex    complicated    entangled    involved    perplexed    entangle    involve    complicate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    delicate    complex    elaborate    precise    obscure    bizarre    ingenious    fascinate    sophisticated    costly