Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate.
- adjective Difficult to understand, analyze, or solve for having many interconnected elements. synonym: complex.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perplexingly involved or entangled; hard to disentangle or disengage, or to trace out; complicated; obscure: as, an intricate knot; the intricate windings of a labyrinth; intricate accounts; the intricate plot of a tragedy.
- In entomology, having unequal elevations and depressions placed irregularly and close together, but without running into each other: said of a sculptured surface.
- To render intricate or involved; make perplexing or obscure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
- adjective Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a great deal of
fine detail orcomplexity . - verb intransitive To become
enmeshed orentangled . - verb transitive To
enmesh orentangle : to cause to intricate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In case you missed the details: Camping's latest Doomsday prediction stemmed from what he described as an intricate mathematical formulation taken directly from numbers in the Bible.
Diane Dimond: False Prophets and Their Profits Diane Dimond 2011
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In case you missed the details: Camping's latest Doomsday prediction stemmed from what he described as an intricate mathematical formulation taken directly from numbers in the Bible.
Diane Dimond: False Prophets and Their Profits Diane Dimond 2011
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The old man thrust out his tongue; and, to Pool's amazement, he saw the surface of that sensitive organ, from root to tip, tattooed in intricate designs.
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Zero stats offered for this assertion, despite Tino explaining in intricate detail all the externalities.
Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It's true that Gene Wolfe's command of prose is very good, and his far-future Earth-in-decline is worked out in intricate and suggestive detail.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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Carbon nanotube arrays can also be grown in intricate patterns using metal masks.
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For a moment, too, he lingers on Barry Lyndon, which reconstructs a lost world in intricate detail.
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You are a desperate cry to God, moulded in intricate word-craftmanship.
unbillable hours: 2004
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You are a desperate cry to God, moulded in intricate word-craftmanship.
Picture Envy 2004
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However, Data General had to field a suitable machine fairly soon, because customers get married to computer companies in intricate ways, and once they've married elsewhere they're often gone for good.
Flying Upside Down 1981
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Complicated.
October 1, 2010
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After walking for many hours along an intricate series of paths and grassy trails , the two travellers came upon a lush , green vally
August 22, 2015