Word Meanings - COMPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate

Additional info about word: COMPLICATION

A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLICATION)

• Intricacy
• Complexity
• complication
• entanglement
• perplexity
• confusion
• Involution
• Complication
• implication
• mingling

Related words: (words related to COMPLICATION)

• MINGLEABLE
  That can be mingled. Boyle.
• COMPLICATION
  A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate
• MINGLEMENT
  The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.
• INVOLUTION
  The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• MINGLE-MANGLE
  To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. Udall.
• IMPLICATION
  1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• MINGLE
  1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24. 2. To associate or unite
• MINGLINGLY
  In a mingling manner.
• INTRICACY
  The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy;
• MINGLER
  One who mingles.
• MINGLEDLY
  Confusedly.
• PERPLEXITY
  The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.
• COMPLEXITY
  1. The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement. The objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity. Burke. 2. That which is complex; intricacy; complication. Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson.
• BEMINGLE
  To mingle; to mix.
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• TRIMMINGLY
  In a trimming manner.
• FOAMINGLY
  With foam; frothily.
• FUMINGLY
  In a fuming manner; angrily. "They answer fumingly." Hooker.
• COMMINGLER
  One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.
• PRESUMINGLY
  Confidently; arrogantly.
• BEAMINGLY
  In a beaming manner; radiantly.
• COMMINGLE
  To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. Bacon.
• SKIMMINGLY
  In a skimming manner.
• SEEMINGLY
  In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly. This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.
• DEFAMINGLY
  In a defamatory manner.