'Complicate' definitions:
Definition of 'complicate'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Complicate'
From: GCIDE
- Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, a. [L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex.]
- 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. [1913 Webster]
- How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Complicate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Nor can his complicated sinews fail. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- When the disease is complicated with other diseases. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'complicate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerate,
- add,
- adjoin,
- affix,
- agglutinate,
- aggravate,
- annex,
- append,
- attach,
- ball up,
- beef up,
- blow up,
- burden,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- confound,
- confuse,
- conjoin,
- consolidate,
- decorate,
- deepen,
- derange,
- disarrange,
- disorder,
- double,
- embrangle,
- encumber,
- enhance,
- entangle,
- exacerbate,
- exaggerate,
- foul up,
- garble,
- glue on,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hitch on,
- hop up,
- hot up,
- implicate,
- infix,
- intensify,
- involve,
- jazz up,
- join with,
- jumble,
- key up,
- knot,
- louse up,
- magnify,
- make complex,
- make unintelligible,
- mess up,
- mix up,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- mystify,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- ornament,
- paste on,
- perplex,
- plus,
- postfix,
- prefix,
- put with,
- ramify,
- ravel,
- redouble,
- reinforce,
- saddle with,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- shadow,
- sharpen,
- slap on,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- soup up,
- step up,
- strengthen,
- subjoin,
- suffix,
- superadd,
- superpose,
- tack on,
- tag,
- tag on,
- tangle,
- triple,
- unite with,
- upset,
- whet