complicated
adjective
uk/ˈkɒm.plɪ.keɪ.tɪd/us/ˈkɑːm.plə.keɪ.t̬ɪd/B1
involvinga lot of differentparts, in a way that isdifficulttounderstand:
复杂的；麻烦的；费解的complicatedinstructions复杂的指令
I had tofillin this really complicatedform.我必须填写这张非常复杂的表格。
Therulesarerathercomplicated tofollow.这些规定遵守起来挺复杂的。
Therelationshipis abitcomplicated. He's my mother's cousin's daughter'schild.关系有点儿复杂，他是我母亲的表姐的女儿的孩子。
not easy to deal with or understand
- difficultIt's very difficult to find a job in this city.
- hardThe exam was really hard.
- complicatedThe instructions were so complicated I just couldn't follow them.
- complexDesigning a house is a complex process.
- trickyIt's quite tricky getting the puzzle pieces to fit together.
- Hislecturewas complicated anddifficulttofollow.
- Ourlawyerguidedus through the more complicatedquestionson theform.
- A complicatedsystemofsewersrunsunder thecity.
- Theroadsystemwas so complicated that we had tostopseveraltimestofindourbearings.
- Yourconclusionis good, but thefinalsentenceis toolongand complicated.
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- delicacy
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intractability
- intricacy
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-elaborate
- over-fussy
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom
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