Need another word that means the same as “complicated”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “complicated” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Complicated” are: complex, intricate, involved, convoluted, tangled, elaborate, impenetrable, knotty, tricky, thorny, serpentine, labyrinthine, tortuous, cumbersome, byzantine, gordian
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “complicated” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| byzantine | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. |
| complex | Denoting or involving numbers or quantities containing both a real and an imaginary part. A complex network of water channels. |
| convoluted | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. The film is let down by a convoluted plot in which nothing really happens. |
| cumbersome | Slow or complicated and therefore inefficient. His cumbersome writing style. |
| elaborate | (of an action) lengthy and exaggerated. Elaborate wrought iron gates. |
| gordian | Extremely intricate; usually in phrase `Gordian knot. |
| impenetrable | Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. Impenetrable jargon. |
| intricate | Very complicated or detailed. Intricate lacework. |
| involved | Emotionally involved. The difficulties in which the question is involved. |
| knotty | Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe. A knotty legal problem. |
| labyrinthine | Relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear. Labyrinthine plots and counterplots. |
| serpentine | Winding and twisting like a snake. A serpentine wall. |
| tangled | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. A tangled tale. |
| thorny | Bristling with perplexities. The thorny question of states rights. |
| tortuous | Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. A tortuous argument. |
| tricky | Not to be trusted- James Agee. Tricky Dick. |
| adulterant | Used in adulterating something. It is necessary to remove the adulterants before use. |
| complex | Make an atom or compound form a complex with another. He s more complex than he seems on the surface. |
| complexity | A factor involved in a complicated process or situation. He enjoyed the complexity of modern computers. |
| compound | Composed of more than one partcompound flower heads. A compound noun. |
| confusing | Bewildering or perplexing. A confusing jumble of road signs. |
| convoluted | Rolled longitudinally upon itself. Walnuts come in hard and convoluted shells. |
| convolution | The action of coiling or twisting or winding together. Crosses adorned with elaborate convolutions. |
| discombobulated | Having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion. The hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand. |
| elaborate | Marked by complexity and richness of detail. She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation. |
| elaboration | The result of improving something. His work led to the elaboration of a theory of evolution. |
| intricacy | Details, especially of an involved or perplexing subject. The intricacy of the procedure. |
| intricate | Very complicated or detailed. An intricate network of canals. |
| involution | Marked by elaborately complex detail. Periods of artistic involution. |
| knotty | Tangled in knots or snarls. A knotty problem. |
| labyrinth | A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance It consists of bony cavities the bony labyrinth filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes the membranous labyrinth. A labyrinth of conflicting laws and regulations. |
| labyrinthine | (of a network) like a labyrinth; irregular and twisting. Labyrinthine plots and counterplots. |
| maze | Something jumbled or confused. A maze of petty regulations. |
| nuance | Give nuances to. He was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect. |
| obscure | Make obscure or unclear. I feel an obscure resentment. |
| perplexing | Lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity. A perplexing problem. |
| perplexity | An entangled state. The dense perplexity of dwarf palm garlanded creepers glossy undergrowth. |
| picky | Exacting especially about details. They are becoming increasingly picky about where they stay. |
| priggish | Exaggeratedly proper. A priggish little pedant. |
| problematic | Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe. The situation was problematic for teachers. |
| puzzle | A jigsaw puzzle. We puzzled over her sudden departure. |
| ravel | Unravel fray. A ravel of knitting. |
| recondite | (of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse. Some recondite problem in historiography. |
| subtlety | A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude. You had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew. |
| tangled | Complicated and confused; chaotic. Oh what a tangled web we weave. |
| tortuous | Marked by repeated turns and bends. Tortuous legal procedures. |
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