complicated

English

complicated (comparative more complicated, superlative most complicated)

Difficult or convoluted.
It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
  
  Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
(biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).

difficult or convoluted

Arabic: مُعَقِّد‎ (muʿaqqid)
Armenian: դժվար (hy) (džvar), բարդ (hy) (bard)
Azerbaijani: mürəkkəb (az), qəliz
Belarusian: склада́ны (skladány)
Bulgarian: сло́жен (bg) (slóžen), объркан (bg) (obǎrkan)
Catalan: complicat (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 複雜 (zh), 复杂 (zh) (fùzá)
Czech: komplikovaný (cs)
Dutch: ingewikkeld (nl), gecompliceerd (nl)
Esperanto: komplika (eo)
Finnish: monimutkainen (fi), sekava (fi)
French: compliqué (fr), alambiqué (fr)
Georgian: გართულებული (gartulebuli), აწეწილი (ac̣ec̣ili), არეულ-დარეული (areul-dareuli), ჩახლართული (čaxlartuli), რთული (rtuli)
German: kompliziert (de), umständlich (de), schwierig (de), verzwickt (de), undurchschaubar (de)
Greek: πολύπλοκος (el) m (polýplokos), περίπλοκος (el) (períplokos)
Ancient: πολύπλοκος (polúplokos)
Hebrew: מסובך‎ m (mesubakh), מסובכת‎ f (mesubekhet), מורכב‎ m (murkav)
Irish: casta, aimpléiseach
Italian: complicato (it)
Japanese: 複雑 (ja) (ふくざつ, fukuzatsu)
Korean: 복잡하다 (ko) (bokjaphada)
Latin: complicātus

Macedonian: сложен (mk) (složen), компликуван (komplikuvan)
Maori: takawhīwhiwhi, takawhiwhiwhiwhi, pōwhiwhi, pōwhīwhiwhi, pōwhiwhiwhiwhi, rīraparapa, matatini, manganga, whīwhiwhi
Norwegian: komplisert (no)
Persian: پیچیده‎ (fa) (pičide)
Polish: skomplikowany (pl), złożony (pl)
Portuguese: complicado (pt)
Romanian: complicat (ro) m or n, alambicat (ro) m or n
Russian: сло́жный (ru) (slóžnyj), запу́танный (ru) (zapútannyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сложен

Roman: složen (sh)
Slovak: komplikovaný
Slovene: zapleten
Spanish: complicado (es)
Swedish: komplicerad (sv)
Tagalog: masalimuot
Telugu: క్లిష్టమైన (kliṣṭamaina)
Thai: ซับซ้อน (th) (sáp-sɔ́ɔn)
Ukrainian: складни́й (skladnýj)
Vietnamese: phức tạp (vi) (複雜)
Welsh: cymhleth (cy)

complicated

simple past tense and past participle of complicate
The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.