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Thesaurus: intricate

Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.

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  1. a. Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
  2. v. t. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
  3. adj. having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
  4. Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult tounderstand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery,labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to theunderstanding with the utmost clearness. Addison.The nature of man is intricate. Burke.
  5. j:100 s. having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate