Composite vs Complicit - What's the difference?
composite | complicit |
Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
(architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
(mathematics) Not prime; having factors.
(botany) Being a member of the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
A mixture of different components.
A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
(botany) A plant belonging to the family Compositae .
(mathematics) A function of a function.
(chiefly, law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, or the like, that combines several separate pictures or images.
To make a composite.
Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
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As adjectives the difference between composite and complicit
is that composite is made up of multiple components; compound or complex while complicit is associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.As a noun composite
is a mixture of different components.As a verb composite
is to make a composite.composite
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* composite bow * composite sketchNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* DYCVerb
(composit)- I composited an image using computer software.
complicit
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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.