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Synonyms for more complex
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : adjective, verb kuhm-pleks, kom-pleks; noun kom-pleks |
| Phonetic Transcription : adjective, verb kəmˈplɛks, ˈkɒm plɛks; noun ˈkɒm plɛks |
Top 10 synonyms for more complex
- abstruse
- bewildering
- circuitous
- compounded
- confused
- conglomerate
- crabbed
- cryptic
- Daedalean
- discursive
- disordered
- elaborate
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- Gordian
- heterogeneous
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- manifold
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- miscellaneous
- mixed
- mixed-up
- mosaic
- motley
- muddled
- multifarious
- multiform
- multiple
- multiplex
- paradoxical
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
- variegated
- winding
Définition of more complex
Origin :- 1650s, "composed of parts," from French complexe "complicated, complex, intricate" (17c.), from Latin complexus "surrounding, encompassing," past participle of complecti "to encircle, embrace," in transferred use, "to hold fast, master, comprehend," from com- "with" (see com-) + plectere "to weave, braid, twine, entwine," from PIE *plek-to-, from root *plek- "to plait" (see ply (v.1)). The meaning "not easily analyzed" is first recorded 1715. Complex sentence is attested from 1881.
- adj involved, intricate
- adj difficult to understand
- Moreover there the technique may be more complex and subtle.
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- It differs from the Parable in being longer and more complex.
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- The more complex the task, the more obvious the need to divide it.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- Unmanured pasture, on the other hand, is more complex in its herbage.
- Extract from : « Manures and the principles of manuring » by Charles Morton Aikman
- It was a bigger equation, a more complex one, but not different in kind.
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- In time the more complex machines were stopped only reluctantly.
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- Her method is to proceed from the more simple to the more complex.
- Extract from : « Evolution, Old & New » by Samuel Butler
- It is longer, more complex in form and sentiment, more of an ideal composition.
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- It seemed to him that her eyes were deeper, that her smile was more complex.
- Extract from : « Cynthia » by Leonard Merrick
- Even some more complex quadriradial and sexradial forms of the latter reappear in exactly the same shape also in the former.
- Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index » by Ernst Haeckel
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