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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMPLICATED, pp. Interwoven; entangled; involved; intricate; composed of two or more things or parts united.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1656 1. consisting of parts intricately combined <a complicated recipe> 2. difficult to analyze, understand, or explain <a complicated issue> Synonyms: see complex • complicatedly adverb • complicatedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Complicate Com"pli*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating.] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. --Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. --Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. --Arbuthnot.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. If you say that something is complicated, you mean it has so many parts or aspects that it is difficult to understand or deal with. The situation in Lebanon is very complicated. ...a very complicated voting system. = complex ? uncomplicated, simple ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See complicate

Moby Thesaurus

Byzantine, Daedalian, abstruse, arduous, balled up, beyond one, complex, compound, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, daedal, devious, difficult, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fancy, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hard, hard to understand, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, ornate, overtechnical, perplexed, ramified, recondite, roundabout, scrambled, screwed up, snarled, sophisticated, subtle, tangled, tangly, tough, twisted