complicated

adjective/ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪtɪd/

Frequency rank: #2,163 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Difficult to understand because of having many connected parts.

Illustration for the English word “complicated”

Example sentence

The instructions for assembling the furniture were more complicated than I expected.

Synonyms & related words

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