Word Meanings - COMPLICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLICATE)

• Involve
• Implicate
• confound
• mingle
• envelop
• compromise
• include
• complicate
• entangle
• Perplex
• Embarrass
• puzzle
• involve
• encumber
• confuse
• bewilder
• mystify
• harass
• Tangle
• Intertwist
• interlock
• snarl
• insnare
• mat
• Twist
• Contort
• convolve
• pervert
• distort
• wrest
• wreath
• wind
• encircle
• form
• weave
• insinuate
• unite
• interpenetrate
• Weave
• Interlace
• intertwine
• intermix
• plait
• intersect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPLICATE)

• Aggravate
• excite
• foster
• perpetuate
• exempt
• enfranchise
• disengage
• extricate
• exonerate
• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to COMPLICATE)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• INTERPENETRATE
  To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• WEAVER
  A weaver bird. (more info) 1. One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. "Weavers of linen." P. Plowman.
• CONVOLVE
  To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• EXEMPTIBLE
  That may be exempted.
• SATIN WEAVE
  A style of weaving producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• PLAIT
  of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply, and cf. Plat 1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison. 2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. Same
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• UNWEAVE
  To unfold; to undo; to ravel, as what has been woven.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• SNARL
  To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
• PERPETUATE
  To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.
• BEMINGLE
  To mingle; to mix.