complexly
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7.0
- adverb
- /kəmˈplɛksli/
:
complejamente
- The puzzle was designed complexly, with intricate pieces that challenged even the best players.
- complexly intertwined histories
- more complexly
It's really a simple, simple truth that is incredibly, complexly painful.
- It's really a simple, simple truth that is incredibly, complexly painful.
- But there was an ethic in alchemy, too, that was allied in part complexly with the whole Judeo-christian tradition.
- And that's another part of my spiritual psychology is the the willingness to think complexly because most people want to simplify.
Examples
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Cultural brokers may thus serve as "native guides" who lead us into a complexly integrated society that is also a semantic universe.
Academic text (1993) -
The committee structure was set up complexly, involving multiple layers of subcommittees and decision-making protocols.
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The process is, of course, a complexly reiterative one.
Academic text (1993) -
You see how quietly but complexly the camera examines the space.
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All of these elements of the poem are complexly woven into and harmonized in this passage.
Fiction book (1996) -
For example, research suggests that socioeconomic status complexly interacts with, and is likely confounded by, race.
Academic text (2017) -
By focusing on agitators' work, I illustrate how complexly gendered these efforts were.
Academic text (2005) -
The quality and everything about this great advancement in the Elder Scrolls series is simply and complexly astounding.
Blog text (1) -
But there was an ethic in alchemy, too, that was allied in part complexly with the whole Judeo-christian tradition.
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The data to date suggest that students have benefited from the experiences afforded them through the CI and have begun to think more complexly and critically about their future goals and possibilities.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
11
4.5
In a way that has many small details and rich decoration
10
6.3
In a very detailed, complicated way with many small parts
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8.7
In a complicated way that is hard to follow
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9.1
In a long, winding way that is hard to follow
With many careful details and clear planning
In a complex and carefully made way
Antonyms
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word complexly comes from complex, which comes from parts com- meaning 'together' and plex meaning 'to fold' or 'weave', so the idea was things 'folded together'. So, to do something complexly is to do it in a way with many connected parts or layers.