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Complicated vs Intricacy - What's the difference?

complicated | intricacy |

As an adjective complicated

is difficult or convoluted.

As a verb complicated

is (complicate).

As a noun intricacy is

the state or quality of being intricate or entangled;.

complicated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult or convoluted.
    • It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
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    • 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.
  • (Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).

    • Antonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (complicate)
    • The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.

    intricacy

    English

    Noun

    (intricacies)
  • The state or quality of being intricate or entangled;
  • Perplexity; involution; complication; complexity;
  • That which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.

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