Complicated vs Complicity - What's the difference?
complicated | complicity |
Difficult or convoluted.
*
(Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
(complicate)
(senseid)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 32:
(archaic) Complexity.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
* 1861 , Dr. Marx, "Musical Education and Instruction," The Musical Times , vol. 10, no. 220, p. 53:
As an adjective complicated
is difficult or convoluted.As a verb complicated
is (complicate).As a noun complicity is
(senseid)the state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.complicated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- 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.
Antonyms
* simpleVerb
(head)- The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.
complicity
English
(wikipedia complicity)Noun
(complicities)- He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank.
- How easy is it, on the other hand, to an enlightened teacher, particularly in the beginning, to elucidate the various forms of rhythm by methodical arrangement in respect of simplicity and increasing complicity or mixture!
