complicated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɪd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/

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• Hyphenation: com‧pli‧cat‧ed

Adjective

complicated (comparative more complicated, superlative most complicated)

1. Difficult or convoluted.

   It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.

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     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

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

Antonyms

• simple

Translations

difficult or convoluted

• Arabic: مُعَقِّد (muʕaqqid)
• Armenian: դժվար (hy) (džvar), բարդ (hy) (bard)
• Azerbaijani: mürəkkəb (az), qəliz
• Belarusian: склада́ны (skladány)
• Bulgarian: сло́жен (bg) (slóžen), объркан (bg) (obǎrkan)
• Catalan: complicat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複雜／复杂 (zh), 复杂 (zh) (fùzá)

• Czech: komplikovaný (cs)
• Dutch: ingewikkeld (nl), gecompliceerd (nl)
• Esperanto: komplika (eo)
• Finnish: monimutkainen (fi), sekava (fi)
• French: compliqué (fr), alambiqué (fr)
• Georgian: გართულებული (gartulebuli), აწეწილი (ac̣ec̣ili), არეულ-დარეული (areul-dareuli), ჩახლართული (čaxlartuli), რთული (rtuli)
• German: kompliziert (de), umständlich (de), schwierig (de), verzwickt (de), undurchschaubar (de)
• Greek: πολύπλοκος (el) m (polýplokos), περίπλοκος (el) (períplokos)

  Ancient: πολύπλοκος (polúplokos)

• Hebrew: מסובך m (mesubakh), מסובכת f (mesubekhet), מורכב m (murkav)
• Irish: casta, aimpléiseach
• Italian: complicato (it)
• Japanese: 複雑 (ja) (ふくざつ, fukuzatsu)
• Korean: 복잡하다 (ko) (bokjaphada)
• Latin: complicātus, contortus
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• Macedonian: сложен (mk) (složen), компликуван (komplikuvan)
• Maori: takawhīwhiwhi, takawhiwhiwhiwhi, pōwhiwhi, pōwhīwhiwhi, pōwhiwhiwhiwhi, rīraparapa, matatini, manganga, whīwhiwhi
• Norwegian: komplisert (no)
• Persian: پیچیده (fa) (pičide)
• Polish: skomplikowany (pl), złożony (pl)
• Portuguese: complicado (pt)
• Romanian: complicat (ro) m or n, alambicat (ro) m or n
• Russian: сло́жный (ru) (slóžnyj), запу́танный (ru) (zapútannyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сложен

  Roman: složen (sh)

• Slovak: komplikovaný
• Slovene: zapleten
• Spanish: complicado (es)
• Swedish: komplicerad (sv)
• Tagalog: masalimuot
• Telugu: క్లిష్టమైన (kliṣṭamaina)
• Thai: ซับซ้อน (th) (sáp-sɔ́ɔn)
• Ukrainian: складни́й (skladnýj)
• Vietnamese: phức tạp (vi) (複雜)
• Welsh: cymhleth (cy)

Verb

complicated

1. simple past and past participle of complicate

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