intricate
adjective
uk/ˈɪn.trɪ.kət/us/ˈɪn.trə.kət/having a lot ofsmallpartsthat arearrangedin acomplicatedordelicateway:
Thewatchmechanismisextremelyintricate and verydifficulttorepair.手表的机械结构非常复杂精细,很难修理。
Thetiledfloorisinstalledin an intricatepattern.
with manycomplicateddetailsthat make somethingdifficulttounderstand:
Policeofficersuncoveredan intricatewebofdeceit.警官们揭开了一整套错综复杂的骗局。
- It was abeautifulornament,antiquebrasswith an intricatedesign.
- Shetaughther grand-daughter the intricateartofweavinggrassbaskets.
- Following the intricate plotline can be achallenge.
- Hedescribesan intricatesystemforchartingprogress.
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- delicacy
- finicky
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intractability
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-elaborate
- over-fussy
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom
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Detailed and careful