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Intricate

Intricate Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Intricate? [adj] highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Intricate: Byzantine \| complex \| convoluted \| involved \| knotty \| labyrinthine \| tangled \| tortuous Related Terms \| Find terms related to Intricate: abstruse \| amalgamated \| ambiguous \| ambivalent \| amphibious \| anfractuous \| arduous \| baffling \| balled up \| bewildering \| beyond one \| blended \| bothering \| brutal \| Byzantine \| combined \| complex \| complicated \| composite \| compound \| compounded \| confounded \| confounding \| confused \| confusing \| conglomerate \| convoluted \| crabbed \| cramp \| critical \| daedal \| Daedalian \| dappled \| dedal \| delicate \| demanding \| devious \| difficile \| difficult \| discomposing \| disconcerting \| dismaying \| distracting \| disturbing \| eclectic \| elaborate \| embarrassing \| embrangled \| enigmatic \| entangled \| equivocal \| exacting \| fancy \| fifty-fifty \| formidable \| fouled up \| garbled \| gordian \| hairy \| half-and-half \| hard \| hard to understand \| hard-earned \| hard-fought \| Herculean \| heterogeneous \| implicated \| indiscriminate \| involuted \| involved \| ironic \| jawbreaking \| jumbled \| knotted \| knotty \| laborious \| labyrinthian \| labyrinthine \| loused up \| many-faceted \| many-sided \| matted \| mazy \| mean \| meandering \| medley \| messed up \| mingled \| miscellaneous \| mixed \| mixed up \| motley \| mucked up \| multifaceted \| multifarious \| multinational \| multiracial \| mysterious \| mystifying \| no picnic \| not easy \| obfuscated \| obscure \| obscured \| operose \| ornate \| overtechnical \| patchy \| perplexed \| perplexing \| perturbing \| pluralistic \| problematic \| promiscuous \| puzzling \| ramified \| rigorous \| rococo \| rough \| roundabout \| rugged \| scrambled \| screwed up \| set with thorns \| severe \| sinuous \| snarled \| sophisticated \| spiny \| steep \| strenuous \| subtle \| syncretic \| tangled \| tangly \| thorny \| thrown together \| ticklish \| toilsome \| tortuous \| tough \| tricky \| twisted \| uphill \| upsetting \| varied \| wicked \| winding See Also \| Intricate In Webster's Dictionary \In"tricate\, a. [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare to entangle, perplex. Cf. {Intrigue}, {Extricate}.] Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. --Addison. The nature of man is intricate. --Burke. Syn: {Intricate}, {Complex}, {Complicated}. Usage: A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be unraveled. \In"tricate\, v. t. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.] It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses. --Jer. Taylor.

Intricate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Intricate?

[adj] highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

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Intricate In Webster's Dictionary

\In"tri*cate\, a. [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare
to entangle, perplex. Cf. {Intrigue}, {Extricate}.]
Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to
understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate
machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.

      His style was fit to convey the most intricate business
      to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
                                               --Addison.

      The nature of man is intricate.          --Burke.

Syn: {Intricate}, {Complex}, {Complicated}.

Usage: A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is
       complicated when those parts are so many, or so
       arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is
       intricate when it has numerous windings and confused
       involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is
       complex must be resolved into its parts; what is
       complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is
       intricate must be unraveled.


\In"tri*cate\, v. t.
To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.]

      It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise
      discourses.                              --Jer. Taylor.

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