Perplex vs Complicate - What's the difference?
perplex | complicate |
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
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:
In transitive terms the difference between perplex and complicate
is that perplex is to involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated while complicate is to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.In obsolete terms the difference between perplex and complicate
is that perplex is intricate; difficult while complicate is intertwined.perplex
English
Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)
Synonyms
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* * *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!