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Complication vs Zipless - What's the difference?

complication | zipless |

As a noun complication

is the act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

As an adjective zipless is

without a zip fastener.

complication

English

Noun

(wikipedia complication) (en noun)
  • The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
  • A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
  • (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  • A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
  • References

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    zipless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a zip fastener.
  • * 1994 , Jeff Torrington, Swing hammer swing!
  • "The patient was almost certainly saved by his zipless zoot suit," said a genial surgeon.
  • * 2006 , Anthony McDonald, Adam
  • No longer in muddy, zipless , trousers, Sylvain wore blue denims...
  • (informal, figuratively) Without complications and hindrances.
  • * 2002 , Francisco Valdes, Jerome M Culp, Angela P Harris, Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory
  • Erica Jong's words regarding the zipless encounter applied completely to my white classmates' actions on that school bus...
  • * 2004 , Jane Isenberg, Hot on the Trail
  • ...wedding planners who would check out venues, prices, caterers and all that stuff and then put it together for us, so it would be a zipless wedding.
  • * 2007 , James Day, Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film
  • And yet this screen presence, going well beyond the literary, is the illusion that the world is like that, that sex is indeed zipless ...

    Derived terms

    * ziplessness