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complicated

adj
/ˈkɒm.plɪ.keɪ.tɪd/UK/ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/US/ˈkɒm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/CA/ˈkɔm.plɪˌkæɪ.tɪd/

Definitions

  1. Difficult or convoluted.

    • It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
    • But there always is in my mind something at once ludicrous and mournful in a crowd congregated for the purpose of amusement. What discontent, what vanity, move the complicated wheels of the social machine!

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

  3. simple past and past participle of complicate

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

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Derived

complicated fracture, complicatedly, complicatedness, noncomplicated, overcomplicated, semicomplicated, supercomplicated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at complicated. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at complicated. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at complicated

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA