Synonyms for complex
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : adjective, verb kuhm-pleks, kom-pleks; noun kom-pleks |
| Phonetic Transcription : adjective, verb kəmˈplɛks, ˈkɒm plɛks; noun ˈkɒm plɛks |
Top 10 synonyms for complex
- a thing about something
- abstruse
- anxiety
- association
- bewildering
- byzantine
- circuitous
- composite
- compound
- compounded
- confused
- conglomerate
- crabbed
- cryptic
- Daedalean
- discursive
- disordered
- ecosystem
- elaborate
- enigmatic
- entangled
- entanglement
- exaggerated reaction
- excursive
- fear
- fixation
- fixed idea
- Gordian
- group
- hang-up
- heterogeneous
- hidden
- idée fixe
- impenetrable
- insanity
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mania
- manifold
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- miscellaneous
- mixed
- mixed-up
- mosaic
- motley
- muddled
- multifarious
- multiform
- multiple
- multiplex
- neurosis
- obsession
- organization
- paradoxical
- phobia
- preoccupation
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- repression
- round-about
- scheme
- sinuous
- snarled
- syndrome
- synthesis
- tangled
- tortuous
- totality
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
- variegated
- winding
Définition of 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
- noun composite, aggregate
- noun psychological problem
- The case of Yates was by all odds the most complex and bewildering of the four.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them.
- Extract from : « The Gorgon's Head » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Yours must be the spirit of the times, strenuous, complex, democratic.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- Through them from the garden and the fields entered a complex of sweet odors.
- Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
- But the facts are far too complex to enable us thus to rush hastily to an answer.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- Not that I want to be too tragic, but my state of mind is rather a complex one.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- But a robot can't take the place of a cop, it's a complex human job.
- Extract from : « Arm of the Law » by Harry Harrison
- But most babies are complex characters, and are not known in an hour.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- But we are able to characterise them sufficiently by that part of the complex action which is the most prominent.
- Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
- The Hegelian dialectic may be also described as a movement from the simple to the complex.
- Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
Antonyms for complex
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