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more complicated

ADJECTIVE

difficult, complex

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arduous convoluted difficult fancy hard intricate knotty perplexing problematic sophisticated troublesome

STRONG

elaborate entangled interlaced involved mixed puzzling

WEAK

Daedalean Gordian abstruse byzantine can of worms gasser hi-tech labyrinthine mega factor recondite various wheels within wheels

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile nice plain simple straightforward uncomplicated

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more complicated

But real protons are much more complicated than that simplified model suggests.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Picking up after the events of “WandaVision,” the show will see Vision “beginning to ask rather more complicated questions” about his identity and humanity, according to Bettany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

In Gillis fans saw an everyman who was more complicated than he looked: a beer-drinking history nerd with jokes exploring the spectrum between manly and “gay,” liberal and “American!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I was hoping it would be a quick recovery, but it was more complicated than they expected," she told fans, external, without disclosing the nature of the procedure.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

But still the hunted people kept coming, and the needs were often more complicated than rations cards and addresses.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom