intricable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French intrincable, from Latin intrīcō (“I entangle”).

Adjective[edit]

intricable (comparative more intricable, superlative most intricable)

  1. (obsolete) Intricate, entangled.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.110:
      A labyrinth of intricable questions, unprofitable contentions, incredibilem delirationem, one calls it.
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