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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word History, Word Parts
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transitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
kam
plih
keIt
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| inflections: |
complicates, complicating, complicated |
| definition: |
to make (a problem, issue, or situation) more difficult or complex.
We were already lost, but getting the wrong directions only complicated the situation.- synonyms:
- embroil, entangle, involve, perplex, snarl, tangle
- antonyms:
- resolve, simplify, unravel
- similar words:
- confound, confuse, embarrass, jumble, knot, mix, muddle, obfuscate, obscure, ravel
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mess |
adverb + (v.)complicate
considerably, enormously, far, greatly, severely, somewhat, thereby, tremendously, undoubtedly, unduly, unnecessarily, vastly
(v.)complicate
+ adverb
already, enough
(v.)complicate
+ noun
adjustment,
analysis,
attempt,
calculation,
comparison,
debate,
diagnosis,
difficulty,
diplomacy,
discourse,
dispute,
effort,
equation,
fact,
identification,
infection,
interaction,
interpretation,
involvement,
issue,
matter,
measurement,
negotiation,
notion,
outlook,
picture,
plaintiff,
planning,
plot,
pneumonia,
pregnancy,
presence,
problem,
process,
prosecution,
prospect,
puzzle,
quest,
recovery,
relation,
relationship,
rescue,
scenario,
search,
selection,
situation,
task,
tension,
terrain,
therapy,
tie,
transition,
trauma,
uncertainty,
understanding
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| pronunciation: |
kam
plih
k t
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| definition 1: |
involved or intricate.
- synonyms:
- complex, complicated, elaborate, intricate, involved
- similar words:
- knotty, tangled
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| definition 2: |
in biology, folded lengthwise several times, as an insect wing or a leaf.
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Complicate is from a Latin word that means "to fold or weave together."
The word complicate
contains the following parts:
com-
Latin
prefix
that means with, together
  More about this word part:
The prefix com-
attaches to Latin bases beginning with m, p, or b. It has multiple forms, as the 'm' sound in com-
assimilates to the initial sound of the base to which it is attached. See the assimilated forms col-, con-, cor-, and co-. Note: com-
is frequently an intensive prefix, as in " commemorate
" and " command
."
Example words:
accomplish, combat, combine, commerce, commercial, commingle, commission, commissioner, commit, comparison, complex, comport, comprehend, incomprehensible, command, commemorate, commute, compare, compel, complacent, complete, complement, complicate, compliment, compose, component, compound1, compulsory, compulsive, computer, compute
- synonyms:
- syn-
plic, plex, ply
Latin
root
that means fold, plait
Example words:
accomplice, applicant, apply, complex, complicate, display, duplex, duplicate, explicable, explicate, implicate, implication, imply, inexplicable, multiplication, multiply1, perplex
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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