to complexify
- verb
- /kəmˈplɛksɪˌfaɪ/
- To create a more nuanced understanding of the issue, the researchers decided to complexify their analysis.
Examples
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The third strategy is entangling group membership or complexifying your allegiances.
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So you look for a complex solution, and you complexify the right hand side of the equation as well.
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Or should I complexify my vocabulary to seem more academic?
Blog text (1) -
The Dove: it seemed to me that the Dove was Broyles himself, and I don't think they would complexify that bit, given his reaction.
Blog text (22) -
And when it does both of those, it complexifies, it gets emergent abilities, emergent powers.
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At the level of the battlefront, practitioners of the mind war strove to overcome stereotypes and refine and complexify their view of the enemy.
Academic text (2010) -
From a horizontal perspective, cultures and religions must meet each other on the surface of the globe, entering into creative dialogic encounters that will produce a complexified collective consciousness; from a vertical perspective, they must plunge their roots deep into the earth in order to provide a stable and secure base for future development.
Academic text (2015) -
She wanted to complexify her argument by adding more detailed evidence and perspectives.
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In order to fully grasp the topic, we must complexify our approach and consider multiple viewpoints.
Synonyms
To make something harder to understand or do
Make something harder than it needs to be
To add too much detail and make something more complicated than needed
To make something more detailed by adding small parts or ideas
Becoming denser, more intense, or more complex
Antonyms
How Complicating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word complexify comes from complex ('made of many parts') and the ending -ify ('to make or become'), so it simply means to 'make something more complex' or increase its complexity.