Complicate vs Confuse - What's the difference?
complicate | confuse |
To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
(obsolete) Intertwined.
Complex, complicated.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , I:
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between complicate and confuse
is that complicate is (obsolete) intertwined while confuse is (obsolete) to rout; discomfit.As verbs the difference between complicate and confuse
is that complicate is to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.As an adjective complicate
is (obsolete) intertwined.complicate
English
Verb
(complicat)- Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your education.
- John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
- The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.
Synonyms
* (expose involvement in a convoluted matter) intricate, entangle, embroil, mix up (in something), mireSee also
* complexAdjective
(en adjective)- How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate , how wonderful, is Man!