All complicated synonyms
com·pli·cat·ed
C c adj complicated
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- arduous — Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- convoluted — If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- intricate — having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze.
- knotty — having knots; full of knots: a knotty piece of wood.
- difficult — not easily or readily done; requiring much labor, skill, or planning to be performed successfully; hard: a difficult job.
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- involved — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- mixed — put together or formed by mixing.
- gasser — Herbert Spencer, 1888–1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
- hi-tech — Of, or using high technology.
- wheels within wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
- abstruse — You can describe something as abstruse if you find it difficult to understand, especially when you think it could be explained more simply.
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- labyrinthine — of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- various — of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another: Various experiments have not proved his theory.
- byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
- daedalean — an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete.
- gordian — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
adjective complicated
- complex — Something that is complex has many different parts, and is therefore often difficult to understand.
- thorny — abounding in or characterized by thorns; spiny; prickly.
- dense — Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.