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complex
adjective as in involved, intricate
adjective as in difficult to understand
Weak matches
- abstruse
- bewildering
- circuitous
- confused
- crabbed
- cryptic
- Daedalean
- discursive
- disordered
- enigmatic
- entangled
- excursive
- Gordian
- hidden
- impenetrable
- inscrutable
- interwoven
- involved
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- mazy
- meandering
- mingled
- mixed
- muddled
- paradoxical
- puzzling
- rambling
- recondite
- round-about
- sinuous
- snarled
- tangled
- tortuous
- undecipherable
- unfathomable
noun as in composite, aggregate
noun as in psychological problem
Example Sentences
The researchers assumed the brain's frontal cortex, which orchestrates complex thoughts and behaviors, was somehow communicating to a brainstem region called the medulla, which controls automatic breathing.
In both computational models and laboratory experiments, the team of scientists used cell density as an effective tool for controlling how mouse cells pattern themselves into complex structures.
The Yakimovich group "Machine Learning for Infection and Disease" aims to understand the complex network of molecular interactions that is active after the body has been infected with a pathogen.
But Rob Jones, director of operations at the NCA, says cracking down on the trade is complex - and even more difficult than policing the movement of illegal drugs.
“I felt his music was complex, beautiful, harmonically and textually varied,” says Coppola, “and interesting.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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