English-Thai Dictionary
complicate
VI ยาก ซับซ้อน yak
complicate
VT ทำ ให้ยา ก ทำให้ ซับซ้อน involve make difficult tam-hai-yak
complicated
ADJ ยาก ที่จะ เข้าใจ ยาก ที่จะ แก้ไข complex involved yak-ti-ja-kao-jai
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
COMPLICATE
v.t. 1. Literally, to interweave; to fold and twist together. Hence, to make complex; to involve; to entangle; to unite or connect mutually or intimately, as different things or parts; followed by with.
Our offense against God hath been complicated with injury to men.
So we say, a complicated disease; a complicated affair.
Commotion in the parts may complicate and dispose them after the manner requisite to make them stick.
2. To make intricate.
COMPLICATE
a. 1. Complex; composed of two or more parts united.
Through the particular actions of war are complicate in fact, yet they are separate and distinct in right.
2. In botany, folded together, as the valves of the glume or chaff in some grasses.
COMPLICATED
pp. Interwoven; entangled; involved; intricate; composed of two or more things or parts united.
COMPLICATELY
adv. In a complex manner.
COMPLICATENESS
n.The state of being complicated; involution; intricacy; perplexity.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
COMPLICATE
Com "pli *cate, a. Etym: [L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex. ]
1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.
2. (Bot. )
Defn: Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.
COMPLICATE
Com "pli *cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n.Complicating. ]
Defn: To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.
COMPLICATELY
COMPLICATELY Com "pli *cate *ly, adv.
Defn: In a complex manner.
COMPLICATENESS
COMPLICATENESS Com "pli *cate *ness, n.
Defn: Complexity. Sir M. Hale.
New American Oxford Dictionary
complicate
com pli cate |ˈkämpləˌkāt ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (something ) more difficult or confusing by causing it to be more complex: middlemen can complicate the process | (as adj. complicating ) : a complicating factor. • Medicine introduce complications in (an existing condition ): smoking may complicate pregnancy. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘combine, entangle, intertwine ’): from Latin complicat- ‘folded together, ’ from the verb complicare, from com- ‘together ’ + plicare ‘to fold. ’
complicated
com pli cat ed |ˈkämpləˌkātid ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪdɪd | ▶adjective 1 consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements; intricate: a complicated stereo system. • involving many different and confusing aspects: a long and complicated saga. 2 Medicine involving complications: complicated appendicitis. DERIVATIVES com pli cat ed ly adverb
Oxford Dictionary
complicate
complicate |ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (something ) more complicated: increased choice will complicate matters for the consumer | (as adj. complicating ) : a complicating factor. • Medicine introduce complications in (an existing condition ): smoking may complicate pregnancy | (as adj. complicating ) : patients with complicating biliary calculi. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘combine, entangle, intertwine ’): from Latin complicat- ‘folded together ’, from the verb complicare, from com- ‘together ’ + plicare ‘to fold ’.
complicated
com |pli |cated |ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd | ▶adjective 1 consisting of many interconnecting parts or elements; intricate: a complicated stereo system. • involving many different and confusing aspects: a long and complicated saga. 2 Medicine involving complications: complicated appendicitis. DERIVATIVES complicatedly adverb
American Oxford Thesaurus
complicate
complicate verb involvement with Adam could only complicate her life: make (more ) difficult, make complicated, mix up, confuse, muddle; informal mess up, screw up, snarl up. ANTONYMS simplify.
complicated
complicated adjective the complicated election process: complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, labyrinthine, tortuous, Gordian; confusing, bewildering, perplexing. ANTONYMS straightforward. WORD SPECTRUM: complicated / simple Word Spectrums show shades of meaning between two polar opposites.
Oxford Thesaurus
complicate
complicate verb involvement with Adam could only complicate her life: make (more ) difficult, make complex, make complicated, mix up; confuse, muddle, entangle, embroil; informal mess up, snarl up, screw up; archaic perplex, embarrass; rare ravel. ANTONYMS simplify.
complicated
complicated adjective the complicated election rules: complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, cumbersome, Byzantine, Daedalian, Gordian; confused, confusing, bewildering, baffling, puzzling, perplexing, difficult to understand, above one's head; informal fiddly; rare involute, involuted. ANTONYMS easy, simple, straightforward.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
complicate
com pli cate /kɑ́mpləkèɪt |kɔ́m -/〖com (共に )plicate (絡み合った )〗動詞 ～s /-ts /; ～d /-ɪd /; -cating 他動詞 1 〈状況 問題など 〉を複雑にする , 難しくする ▸ The incident can complicate the peace talks .その事件で和平会談は難航するかもしれない ▸ to complicate matters (further )事態を (さらに )複雑にすることに (!独立不定詞 ) 2 〈病状など 〉を悪化させる , こじらす ; 〖通例be ～d 〗〈病状などが 〉悪化する , こじれる .形容詞 /kɑ́mplɪkət /1 ｟古 ｠＝complicated .2 〘生物 〙(葉 昆虫の羽が )折り重なった .
complicated
com pli cat ed /kɑ́mpləkèɪtɪd |kɔ́m -/ (! 強勢は第1音節 ) →complicate 形容詞 more ～; most ～〈状況 問題 機械などが 〉複雑な (↔simple ); (複雑で理解 解決が )難しい , 困難な ▸ a very [an extremely, a pretty ] complicated issue きわめて複雑な問題 ▸ The job was much more complicated than I (had ) expected .仕事は想像していたよりもずっと複雑なものだった ～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞
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