Complicated vs Complicit - What's the difference?
complicated | complicit |
Difficult or convoluted.
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(Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
(complicate)
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
* 1861 , Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion ,
* 1973 , , As If by Magic , Secker and Warburg,
* 2005 , Larry Dennsion, "
As adjectives the difference between complicated and complicit
is that complicated is difficult or convoluted while complicit is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.As a verb complicated
is (complicate).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.
complicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)p. 203,
- It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit , guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues,
p. 177:
- "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
Letters," Time , 7 March:
- Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.