COMPLICATED


Meaning of COMPLICATED in English

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.

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