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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
Two of Emma’s children have complex medical needs and have spent years on “endless waiting lists”, she says.
She added: "It is a really complex investigation and I am committed and determined to finding answers for Alistair's family."
The team are now working on advancing time series pattern-finding methods that can handle the diverse and complex nature of real-life medical data, including irregular sampling and missing data.
"Surprisingly, a simple geometrical description underlies the yielding transition observed, despite involving large and complex shape changes coupled with frictional interactions."
"The complex biology of chronic diseases has made it challenging to come up with effective therapeutic hypotheses," says Young, who is also a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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