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| Main Entry: |
over one's head
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not understandable |
| Synonyms: | baffling, bewildering, beyond comprehension, beyond one, complex, complicated, deep, hard to understand, incomprehensible, profound, unfathomable |
| Main Entry: | tangled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complex |
| Synonyms: | complicated, confused, difficult, entangled, intricate, involved |
| Antonyms: | apparent, clear, obvious, simple |
| Main Entry: | twisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knotty |
| Synonyms: | awry, bent, braided, coiled, complicated, contorted, convoluted, crooked, curled, gnarled, intricate, involved, knurly, perverted, tangled, tortile, tortuous, wound, wry |
| Antonyms: | untwisted |
| Main Entry: | byzantine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complex |
| Synonyms: | complicated, convoluted, daedal, detailed, devious, difficult, elaborate, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, tortuous |
| Main Entry: | heightened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavy |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, complex, complicated, concentrated, confused, fierce, formidable, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, intense, intensive, intolerable, knotty, labored, laborious, onerous, oppressive, profound, recondite, rough, serious, solemn, stormy, strenuous, te |
| Main Entry: | involute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complex |
| Synonyms: | Daedalian, byzantine, circuitous, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confused, conglomerate, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, entangled, heterogeneous, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, manifold, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed-up, mosaic, motley, multifarious, multiform, multiple, multiplex, tangled, tortuous, variegated |
| Main Entry: | aggravate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to become worse |
| Synonyms: | complicate, deepen, enhance, exacerbate, exaggerate, heighten, increase, inflame, intensify, magnify, mount, rise, rouse, worsen |
| Notes: | to aggravate is to make something worse, while to exacerbate is to increase something's bitterness or harshness aggravate means 'to add to' an already troublesome or vexing matter or condition while irritate means 'to vex, annoy, or chafe' irritate means 'inflame' (originally 'excite, rouse'); aggravate means 'worsen' |
| Antonyms: | alleviate, help, improve, relieve, soothe |
| Main Entry: | confuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bewilder someone |
| Synonyms: | abash, addle, amaze, astonish, baffle, becloud, bedevil, befuddle, bemuse, cloud, clutter, complicate, confound, darken, daze, demoralize, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disorient, distract, embarrass, faze, fluster, fog, frustrate, fuddle, involve, lead astray, mess up*, misinform, mislead, mortify, muddle, mystify, nonplus, obscure, perplex, perturb, puzzle, rattle, render uncertain, shame, stir up, stump, throw off, throw off balance, trouble, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry |
| Antonyms: | clarify, clear up, enlighten, explain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disorganize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disrupt arrangement; make shambles of |
| Synonyms: | break down, break up, clutter, complicate, confound, confuse, demobilize, derange, destroy, disarrange, disarray, disband, discompose, discreate, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disperse, disturb, embroil, jumble, litter, mess up, mislay, misplace, muddle, perturb, put out of order, scatter, scramble, shuffle, toss, turn topsy-turvy, unsettle, upset |
| Antonyms: | compose, neaten, order, organize, plan, systematize, tidy |
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