complicated

English

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Adjective

complicated (comparative more complicated, superlative most complicated)

1. difficult or convoluted

   It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.

2. (Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects)

Antonyms

• simple

Translations

difficult or convoluted

Armenian: դժվար (hy) (džvar), բարդ (hy) (bard) Bulgarian: сложен (bg), объркан (bg) Catalan: complicat (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 複雜, 复杂 (fùzá) Czech: komplikovaný (cs) m. Dutch: ingewikkeld (nl), gecompliceerd (nl) Esperanto: komplika (eo) Finnish: monimutkainen (fi), sekava (fi) French: compliqué (fr), alambiqué (fr) German: kompliziert (de) Greek: πολύπλοκος (el) m. (polýplokos) Hebrew: מסובך (mesubakh) m., מסובכת (mesubekhet) f.

Japanese: 複雑 (ja) (fukuzatsu) Lojban: pluja (jbo) Norwegian: komplisert Persian: پیچیده (ru) (pičide) Polish: skomplikowany (pl) m. Portuguese: complicado (pt) Romanian: complicat (ro) m. and n., alambicat (ro) m. and n. Russian: сложный (ru) (slóžnyj) Spanish: complicado (es) Swedish: komplicerad (sv) Telugu: క్లిష్టమైన (klishTamaina) Vietnamese: phức tạp (vi)

Verb

complicated

1. Simple past tense and past participle of complicate.

   The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.