Intricate

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  • adjective. Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate.
  • adjective. Difficult to understand, analyze, or solve for having many interconnected elements. synonym: complex.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To render intricate or involved; make perplexing or obscure.
  • Perplexingly involved or entangled; hard to disentangle or disengage, or to trace out; complicated; obscure: as, an intricate knot; the intricate windings of a labyrinth; intricate accounts; the intricate plot of a tragedy.
  • In entomology, having unequal elevations and depressions placed irregularly and close together, but without running into each other: said of a sculptured surface.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
  • adjective. Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
  • verb. To become enmeshed or entangled.
  • verb. To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
  • Word Usage
    "In case you missed the details: Camping's latest Doomsday prediction stemmed from what he described as an intricate mathematical formulation taken directly from numbers in the Bible."
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    complex  
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