intricately
adverb
uk/ˈɪn.trɪ.kət.li/us/ˈɪn.trə.kət.li/in a way that has a lot ofsmallpartsthat arearrangedin acomplicatedordelicateway:
an intricatelyengravedpendant
in a way that has manycomplicateddetailsand isthereforedifficulttounderstand:
Thehijackingoperationwas intricatelyplanned.
See
intricate
- intricatelycarvedpillarsmade ofancientwood
- Morningfrosthighlightsthe intricatelyformedseedheads.
- Stonehenge is an intricatelyplannedarrangementofhugestones.
- Thebookis intricatelyplottedandsmartlywritten.
- Thesedetailsshow how intricatelyslaverywaswoveninto the country'seconomy.
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