COMPLICATED Synonyms

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts

• a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

• a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

• (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

• a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

• difficult to analyze or understand

• rolled longitudinally upon itself

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• connected by participation or association or use

• entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• emotionally involved

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• enveloped

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• tangled in knots or snarls

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• not clear to the understanding

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

• entrap

• twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

• deep soft mud in water or slush

• a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from

• entrap

• cause to get stuck as if in a mire

• be unable to move further

• soil with mud, muck, or mire

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• make more complicated

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition

• reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities

• attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or intensity by polishing or purifying

• make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of