complicated

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪtɪd/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: com‧pli‧cat‧ed

Adjective

complicated (comparative more complicated, superlative most complicated)

Difficult or convoluted.
It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 177:
  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!
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
  Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
(biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).

Antonyms

simple

Derived terms

complicated fracture

Translations

difficult or convoluted

Arabic: مُعَقِّد‎ (muʿaqqid)
Armenian: դժվար (hy) (džvar), բարդ (hy) (bard)
Azerbaijani: mürəkkəb (az), qəliz
Belarusian: склада́ны (be) (skladány)
Bulgarian: сло́жен (bg) (slóžen), объркан (bg) (obǎrkan)
Catalan: complicat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 複雜／复杂 (zh) (fùzá)
Czech: komplikovaný (cs)
Dutch: ingewikkeld (nl), gecompliceerd (nl)
Esperanto: komplika (eo)
Finnish: monimutkainen (fi), sekava (fi)
French: compliqué (fr), alambiqué (fr)
Georgian: გართულებული (gartulebuli), აწეწილი (ac̣ec̣ili), არეულ-დარეული (areul-dareuli), ჩახლართული (čaxlartuli), რთული (rtuli)
German: kompliziert (de), umständlich (de), schwierig (de), verzwickt (de), undurchschaubar (de)
Greek: πολύπλοκος (el) m (polýplokos), περίπλοκος (el) (períplokos)
Ancient: πολύπλοκος (polúplokos)
Hebrew: מסובך‎ m (mesubakh), מסובכת‎ f (mesubekhet), מורכב‎ (he) m (murkav)
Hindi: जटिल (hi) (jaṭil)
Hungarian: bonyolult (hu), komplikált (hu)
Irish: casta, aimpléiseach
Italian: complicato (it), intricato (it), complesso (it)
Japanese: 複雑 (ja) (ふくざつ, fukuzatsu)
Korean: 복잡하다 (ko) (bokjaphada)
Latin: complicātus, contortus, involūtus
Macedonian: сложен (mk) (složen), компликуван (komplikuvan)
Malayalam: സങ്കീർണ്ണമായ (saṅkīṟṇṇamāya)
Maori: takawhīwhiwhi, takawhiwhiwhiwhi, pōwhiwhi, pōwhīwhiwhi, pōwhiwhiwhiwhi, rīraparapa, matatini, manganga, whīwhiwhi, pīroiroi
Norwegian: komplisert (no)
Old English: maniġfeald
Persian: پیچیده‎ (fa) (pičide)
Polish: skomplikowany (pl), złożony (pl)
Portuguese: complicado (pt)
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਗੁੰਝਲ਼ਦਾਰ (guñjhḷadār)
Shahmukhi: گنجھࣇدار‎ (gunjhaḷdār)
Romanian: complicat (ro) m or n, alambicat (ro) m or n
Russian: сло́жный (ru) (slóžnyj), запу́танный (ru) (zapútannyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сложен
Roman: složen (sh)
Slovak: komplikovaný
Slovene: zapleten
Spanish: complicado (es)
Swedish: komplicerad (sv)
Tagalog: masalimuot
Telugu: క్లిష్టమైన (kliṣṭamaina)
Thai: ซับซ้อน (th) (sáp-sɔ́ɔn)
Ukrainian: складни́й (skladnýj)
Vietnamese: phức tạp (vi) (複雜)
Welsh: cymhleth (cy)

Verb

complicated

simple past tense and past participle of complicate
The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.