Definitions for: Complicate

[v] make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
[v] make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter"

Webster (1913) Definition: Com"pli*cate, a. [L. complicatus, p. p. of
complicare to fold together. See Complex.]
1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex;
complicated; involved.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How
complicate, how wonderful is man! --Young.

2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold
running lengthwise.

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.

Synonyms: elaborate, perplex, rarify, refine

Antonyms: simplify

See Also: alter, change, complexify, develop, embrangle, involve, snarl, snarl up, sophisticate

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