complexed

8.2

Feeling insecure about how you look or what you can do

adjective
/kəmˈplɛkst/

: complejado

Many teenagers become complexed about their appearance during high school.

Examples

She always felt complexed about her accent when speaking in public.
He seemed complexed by his lack of experience compared to his colleagues.
He felt complexed.
Don't feel complexed!
She always felt complexed about her accent when speaking in public.
Many teenagers become complexed about their appearance during high school.
He seemed complexed by his lack of experience compared to his colleagues.

Synonyms

insecure

vscomplexed

131 3.4

Not confident about yourself or your skills

stems from a specific psychological pattern rather than general low confidence

self-conscious

vscomplexed

61 4.6

Feeling nervous because you think others are watching or judging you

comes from a deep internal pattern causing sustained insecurity

ill at ease

vscomplexed

6 5.5

Feeling uncomfortable or nervous around other people

is an internal, lasting issue causing insecurity beyond just social awkwardness

Antonyms

confidence

456 2.1

A belief that you can do something well

self-assurance

4 3.5

Confidence in your own ability to do things and make choices

How Self-Conscious

paranoid

392 5.6

insecure

131 3.4

complexed

8.2

self-conscious

61 4.6

uneasy

98 3.2

confident

715 2.5

Surface Forms

complexed positive

Morphology

complexed = complex (semi-transparent) = complex + ed

Formed by the regular addition of '-ed' to 'complex' to make an adjective meaning 'having a (psychological) complex', but the psychological sense of 'complex' may be unfamiliar to many learners.

Etymology

Complexed comes from complex, which is from old Latin parts com- 'together' and plex 'to weave'. Think of worries 'woven together' into a knot, and that's why someone complexed feels insecure or tied up by a group of feelings.