Word Meanings - INTRICACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTRICACY)

• Knot
• Tie
• bond
• intricacy
• difficulty
• perplexity
• cluster
• collection
• band
• group
• protuberance
• joint
• Mesh
• Intricacy
• entanglement
• involution
• snare
• Puzzle
• Embarrassment
• be wilderment
• enigma
• confusion
• conundrum
• labyrinth

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTRICACY)

• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to INTRICACY)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• 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.
• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• PROTUBERANCE
  That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• JOINTURELESS
  Having no jointure.
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• JOINTING
  The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• 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.
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• UNJOINTED
  Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.