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

• Arabic: معقد (ar) (muʿaqqid)
• Armenian: դժվար (hy) (džvar), բարդ (hy) (bard)
• Bulgarian: сложен (bg) (složen), объркан (bg) (obǎrkan)
• Catalan: complicat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複雜 (cmn), 复杂 (cmn) (fùzá)

• Czech: komplikovaný (cs) m
• Dutch: ingewikkeld (nl), gecompliceerd (nl)
• Esperanto: komplika (eo)
• Finnish: monimutkainen (fi), sekava (fi)
• French: compliqué (fr), alambiqué (fr)
• Georgian: გართულებული (ka) (gart'ulebuli), აწეწილი (ka) (acecili), არეულ-დარეული (ka) (areul-dareuli), ჩახლართული (ka) (č'axlart'uli)
• German: kompliziert (de)
• Greek: πολύπλοκος (el) (polýplokos) m

• Hebrew: מסובך (he) (mesubakh) m, מסובכת (he) (mesubekhet) f, מורכב (he) (murkav) m
• Irish: casta (ga)
• Japanese: 複雑 (ja) (ふくざつ, fukuzatsu)
• Korean: 복잡하다 (ko) (bokjap-hada) (複雜 (ko) + 하다 (ko))
• Lojban: pluja (jbo)
• Norwegian: komplisert
• Persian: پیچیده (fa) (pičide)
• Polish: skomplikowany (pl) m
• Portuguese: complicado (pt)
• Romanian: complicat (ro) m and n, alambicat (ro) m and n
• Russian: сложный (ru) (slóžnyj), запутанный (ru) (zapútannyj)
• Spanish: complicado (es)
• Swedish: komplicerad (sv)
• Telugu: క్లిష్టమైన (klishTamaina)
• Vietnamese: phức tạp (vi) (複雜 (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.