Intricate; difficult.n. A difficulty; an entanglement; something hard to understand; a perplexity.To make intricate; involve; entangle; make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled.To embarrass; puzzle; distract; bewilder; trouble with suspense, anxiety, or ambiguity.Synonyms To complicate, tangle, snarl.Puzzle, etc. (see embarrass), confuse, harass, pose, nonplus, put to a stand, mystify.