† complexedadj.
/kəmˈplɛkst/ Obsolete.
Made complex; complex, complicated, intricately involved.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or complex
nice?a1500
perplexeda1522
perplex1534
intricablea1540
implicate1555
labyrinthed1641
complexed1646
knotted1649
complicated1656
plicated1666
complicatea1687
complex1715
Byzantine1937
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]
nice?a1500
plaited1532
intricablea1540
unsimple?1541
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
Gordian1606
involved1643
complexed1646
contortuplicated1648
complicated1656
puzzled1659
involute1669
complicatea1687
complex1715
woofed1820
snaggled1896
non-transparent1939
complexified1962
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 322 More complexed considerations. View more context for this quotation
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 359 Giving almost every thing..a complexed and complicated accommodation to various other things.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 91 When a Man understands..this simple manner, he may easily go on to a more complex'd Construction.
1858 A. De Morgan Let. 1 Jan. in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 539 Cauchy's proof..is Argand's, much complexed, perplexed, retroplexed, and omniplexed.
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