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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
complicated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
complex/complicated
▪ The Australian health care system is extremely complex.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
extremely
▪ As we saw in the previous section, the model is extremely complicated.
▪ These workshops are particularly valuable on a historical site that may be indistinct, puzzling and confusing, or extremely complicated.
▪ Theorists can unravel the structure of extremely complicated games.
▪ Going abroad to study usually involved extremely complicated and difficult procedures.
less
▪ Pinot Blanc is one of the less complicated Alsace grapes, producing good, refreshing wines.
▪ It had become less simple and at the same time less complicated than that.
▪ The are more or less complicated functions of the:.
▪ In earlier, less complicated times an offender might be banished, mutilated or hanged.
more
▪ Too many legs though, round luminous eyes, and more complicated mandibles than any arachnid Ace had ever seen on Earth.
▪ For species with more than one d electron, things are much more complicated.
▪ The case became more and more complicated.
▪ It can be even more complicated.
▪ Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device, system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits.
▪ If one of the depends on 0, the problem is much more complicated and we will not discuss it further.
▪ If I break the rule, correcting the pattern is more complicated.
▪ Rot was more complicated and difficult.
most
▪ MPEG-2 sets the standard for the compression of digital signals, the most complicated and expensive element of any digital broadcasting system.
▪ But if it involves simple images, there's no need to buy the most complicated package.
▪ Friendship is one of nature's most complicated relationships.
▪ Y-cells are possibly the most complicated of the lot.
▪ In nature, it is those species that live in highly organized groups that require the most complicated communication systems.
quite
▪ The calculation is quite complicated, as I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows.
▪ The body, however, is quite complicated.
▪ These can be quite complicated and it is important that you understand both systems.
▪ When pursued in detail, such procedures can become quite complicated.
▪ For example, unless you are careful, permissions for access can become quite complicated.
▪ Some of the concepts and procedures described are quite complicated and require an understanding of file structures.
rather
▪ Under the Act, the position is also rather complicated, but reasonably clear.
▪ Tracing the course of the profits squeeze is inevitably rather complicated and speculative because the various influences can not be quantified.
▪ There is a death which is eventually explained and some rather complicated love-affairs.
▪ The vehicles are sometime rather complicated to run, and it is essential to have the workings explained to you.
so
▪ Why did life have to be so complicated?
▪ Things'd be much easier if people didn't make it so complicated.
▪ But does it have to be so complicated?
▪ She made it sound so complicated.
▪ We want to know how they came into existence and why they are so complicated.
▪ Indeed, the cross-equation restrictions may become so complicated as to make computation of the restricted model difficult or impossible in practice.
▪ Constance had never seen anything so complicated.
too
▪ Dinner's fine, but it's on me, as long as you don't get picky and expect anything too complicated.
▪ If Jean could do that doctoring business, then it couldn't be too complicated, or do that much good.
▪ Its critics list many, not all as solid as they sound: Too complicated.
▪ However, it need not be too complicated.
▪ It was too complicated coping with a system of security locks for three doors.
▪ But he said loans were too complicated - this was easier.
▪ Unfortunately, this is too complicated for the Z88's operating system.
very
▪ He added that the application procedure is very complicated and depends on full information from the tenant.
▪ Deciding the priorities was a very complicated and difficult task.
▪ There are higher rates for work that is very complicated, difficult or urgent.
▪ What of the future of Bosnia, in particular, where there is a very complicated cocktail of ethnic mixes?
▪ He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation.
▪ The formula looks very complicated because it suddenly introduces cell addresses that mix relative and absolute references.
▪ Legal Matters Having an extra day every four years makes things very complicated.
▪ Since coal is formed from plants, which are chemically very complicated, its own chemical make-up is very elaborate.
■ NOUN
business
▪ In any event, surveying becomes a much more complicated business and much more difficult to execute satisfactorily.
▪ Organization and expertise were available there for the financing of increasingly complicated business.
▪ The scavenging of energy and the processing thereof is a complicated business.
▪ Now sadder but wiser, we are prepared to admit that the implementation of curriculum change is a complicated business.
▪ These may, from time to time, make policy formulation and implementation a complicated business.
▪ I don't conclude anything from that either, except that fancying is a complicated business.
▪ Most adults do it almost unthinkingly, but for young children it's a painstakingly complicated business.
▪ We are such thoroughly visual animals that we hardly realize what a complicated business seeing is.
case
▪ Extension to more complicated cases is not difficult.
▪ In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators.
▪ The political significance of the vulgarization of high culture is exemplified in the more complicated case of Andy Warhol.
▪ In complicated cases, the schedule can and should be drafted by counsel.
matter
▪ To obtain this is in itself a complicated matter.
▪ The Attorney-General Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will contrive to listen to what I am saying on this complicated matter.
▪ A decade later, however, Calvinism appeared on the scene to make an already complicated matter more so.
▪ But there are areas of fraud which still need to be tackled, such as the complicated matter of deceiving a machine.
▪ Clearly this operation greatly complicated matters and consequently added to the cost.
▪ But it can be a complicated matter to extract useful information from the observed spectra.
▪ Indeed, there is a case for supposing that in complicated matters it is likely to be the worst one.
▪ As to the judiciary, the Court of Justice, this is a more complicated matter.
pattern
▪ In molecules with more than one halogen atom more complicated patterns appear.
▪ She had been moving in large ellipses, crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern.
▪ Lights moved in complicated patterns on the top of the Thing.
▪ A complicated pattern of basins and ridges hind the volcanic arc.
▪ Once again we worked as a Club, being issued with fine slub yarns and complicated patterns.
▪ Pale green pipes writhed around the top and bottom of the walls and in a complicated pattern over the ceiling.
process
▪ Perhaps it would help if I explained the complicated process by which the Journal is produced.
▪ The launch of any new product, in whatever industry, can be a long and complicated process.
▪ From the first day of competition onwards there was the complicated process of conquering the logistics of the Stadio Olimpico complex.
▪ It was a very involved and complicated process.
▪ Lithography had many advantages over the difficult and complicated processes of copper and steel engraving, and even over the woodcut.
▪ Then, paclitaxel is extracted from the bark in a complicated process.
▪ But there are sometimes hitches in this complicated process and problems can develop.
relationship
▪ In fact, as the Lacanian schema indicates, the self and the other are caught in a more complicated relationship.
▪ This creates complicated relationships between project managers and functional managers.
▪ Friendship is one of nature's most complicated relationships.
structure
▪ Other complicated structures are possible; these include performance-related options which would permit management to obtain more shares.
▪ Bedu tents are huge, complicated structures.
▪ Most of these universes will not provide the right conditions for the development of the complicated structures needed for intelligent life.
▪ Behind this front line is a complicated structure of health, social, housing and financial services, management and monitoring systems.
▪ Thus, the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us.
system
▪ Right-On movements such as the feminists and the peace campaigners evolved complicated systems to ensure this happened.
▪ Birds also have a complicated system of courtship. 10.
▪ There's no complicated system of motorised controlled valves - just state of the art technology.
▪ The Patriot is a complicated system of launchers, radars, communications and control.
things
▪ We began this section by asking what kind of explanation for complicated things would satisfy us.
▪ On the other hand, the world was miles across and full of complicated things.
▪ We wanted to know why we, and all other complicated things, exist.
▪ Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.
▪ The pendant round my neck only complicated things.
▪ Helicopters, too, are complicated things and pose many problems.
▪ There is no single way to measure creativity or industrial innovation; they are complicated things.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
too silly/complicated/ridiculous etc for words
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a complicated set of instructions
▪ I didn't realize programming the VCR would be so complicated.
▪ the complicated problem of bringing peace to the Middle East
▪ The brain is like a very powerful, very complicated computer.
▪ The new law is complicated and confusing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A more complicated mount might have distracted one's eye from the flowers and the frame.
▪ It's certainly the best way to produce more complicated boards.
▪ It can be even more complicated.
▪ The body, however, is quite complicated.
▪ The references I have made to light and existence only touch the surface of a very complicated debate.
▪ The symbolism is complicated and relies on a great deal of background information.
▪ The Tour may now display a hero, but it's also likely that this long and complicated race shelters a secret.
▪ Upper classes are often heavily loaded with current world affairs and the complicated workings of the United Nations and its agencies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Complicated

Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating.] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.

Nor can his complicated sinews fail.
--Young.

Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action.
--Addison.

When the disease is complicated with other diseases.
--Arbuthnot.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
complicated

1640s, "tangled," from past participle adjective from complicate. Figurative meaning "not easy to solve, intricate, confused, difficult to unravel" is from 1650s.

Wiktionary
complicated

  1. 1 difficult or convoluted. 2 (Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects). v

  2. (en-past of: complicate)

WordNet
complicated

adj. difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

Wikipedia
Complicated (Avril Lavigne song)

"Complicated" is the debut single by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released in 2002 from her debut album, Let Go. It was written by Lavigne and The Matrix (Scott Spock, Lauren Christy, and Graham Edwards), and produced by The Matrix. The single reached number one in Australia (for six weeks), New Zealand and Mexico (for nine weeks), number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three in the United Kingdom. Based on its chart performance, the song is Lavigne's second most successful single (only behind her 2007 single " Girlfriend") and was one of the most successful releases of 2002. Lavigne broke a record set by Natalie Imbruglia's " Torn" when "Complicated" held the number one spot on the Adult Top 40 chart for 16 weeks in a row. "Complicated" was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Complicated (Nivea album)

Complicated is the second album by American singer Nivea, released in the United States on May 3, 2005 (see 2005 in music) on Jive Records. It was primarily produced by her then-husband The-Dream, with additional production from Lil Jon, R. Kelly, Bryan Michael Cox and Jermaine Dupri. The album peaked at #37 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album charts. Complicated was critically acclaimed, but failed to receive major commercial success, eventually becoming Nivea's lowest selling album to date with 84,000 copies sold in the U.S.

"Okay", the album's lead single, was already recorded back in 2003. Though it was clear, that the track was going to be released as a single, the record company kept it under closure to introduce the upcoming crunk&B style with newcomer Ciara and her " Goodies" track. No other single was released from Complicated due to a recall on the album for having a content-protector and some discs wouldn't play, so Nivea decided to leave Jive Records not long after the album's release.

Complicated (Tanya Tucker album)

Complicated is an album by Country recording artist Tanya Tucker. Instead of longtime producer Jerry Crutchfield, Tucker employed Gregg Brown to produce the album. One track hit the Top Ten in the Billboard Top Country Singles charts, the number 9 "Little Things." "Ridin' Out the Heartache" was the only other single to chart, at number 45. The album reached #15 on the Country Albums chart.

Complicated

Complicated may refer to:

Songs
  • "Complicated" (Avril Lavigne song)
  • "Complicated" (Carolyn Dawn Johnson song)
  • "Complicated" (The Cliks song)
  • "Complicated" (Rihanna song)
  • "Complicated", a song by Bon Jovi on their 2005 album Have a Nice Day
Albums
  • Complicated (Nivea album), or the title song
  • Complicated (Parmalee album), or the title song
  • Complicated (Tanya Tucker album), or the title song
Complicated (Carolyn Dawn Johnson song)

"Complicated" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson. It was released in April 2001 the second single from her debut album Room with a View. The song was also her second entry on two U.S. singles charts, peaking at number 5 on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) and number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number 15 on that magazine's Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. The song was written by Johnson and Shaye Smith.

Complicated (Parmalee album)

Complicated is an EP by American country music group Parmalee. It was released on May 27, 2008 via Deep South.

Complicated (Rihanna song)

"Complicated" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna from her fifth studio album Loud (2010). It was written and produced by Tricky Stewart and Ester Dean. "Complicated" is a dance-pop, hip hop and trance music song, which also displays elements of pop, dance-pop and R&B. It contains lyrical content explaining how two people in a relationship can find one another complicated at times. The song was acclaimed by critics, as the majority of reviewers concluded that it was one of the best tracks to be included on Loud. Reviewers also praised Rihanna's vocal performance in the song. Upon the release of the album in November 2010, the song charted at number 50 on the South Korea Gaon International Chart.

Usage examples of "complicated".

Of course, there are spells on your house, various types of complicated protection spells that only Albus knows about or understands, but we needed to safeguard against someone going after one of your neighbors in order to be close to you.

Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.

But autocatalysis and homeostasis enabled simple structures to interact and spin off more complex structures still, until living things emerged, which combined into ever more complicated entities.

It should also be remarked of Lord George Bentinck, that in his most complicated calculations he never sought aid from notes.

Hastily, before the Eastern front, the position around Bialystok for instance, can come up, action is taken: hapazardly the assassin puts the brief case with contents under the card table, on which lie the general staff maps with their complicated markings, around which Messrs.

Genemod was a complicated process, and once the zygote had become blastomeres, no further permanent engineering was possible.

In that way the Ferrarese school became somewhat complicated with the Bolognese school, and is confused in its history to this day.

Strange as it seems, the issue is further complicated by all of the health benefits botulinum toxin offers.

The cable terminated in a knot of dozens of others, at a complicated cagework that threaded the axle of a town-wheel.

He tried to reduce complicated national issues to memorable slogans - the Vision, the National Development Policy, Unhyphenated Canadianism, the Confederation Platform, the Five-Year Plan, the Bill of Rights, proCanadianism - then represented himself as having a personal monopoly over the undeniably good things for which they stood.

After a complicated moment, Carcer was lying on the iron latticework, one arm under him, the other outflung and being banged heavily on the metal by Vimes.

Madame Carnot has complicated things by prematurely introducing you to these concepts.

When reflecting upon her, his thoughts would frequently glance upon Laurentina, she whose Circean charms had accomplished his overthrow, arid dwell with painful regret upon the recollection of his complicated enmes and misfortunes.

The region in question had coalesced over time into an oblate sphere, which, as a consequence of complicated processes of pattern propagation that had coevolved with the structures, both rotated and described an orbit through the matrix about one of the primary data-entry ports spaced in a regular grid throughout its volume.

The Marine plan, which called for coordination among multiple commands, was overly complicated and badly coordinated.