intricate
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6.7
- adjective
- /ˈɪntrɪkɪt/
:
intrincado
- She found the instructions for assembling the furniture to be intricate and hard to follow.
- an intricate design
- intricate details
- intricate patterns
A handmade look at this intricate paper ornament.
- A handmade look at this intricate paper ornament.
- And it's like this amazing intricate set list.
- The mask was far more intricate than people thought.
- You're like this beautiful, intricate Organism that I love so much.
- You cannot build something more intricate than the scale of the tools you're using.
- This is how intricate gear can be.
- So even those ships seem like these intricate, complex things.
- You know, the little bitty intricate parts are not televisual.
- And that this has been such an intimate and intricate part of who he is as a person.
Examples
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America's financial system is intricate and complex.
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The mask was far more intricate than people thought.
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Why are they so intricate and yet so different from each other?
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And it's like this amazing intricate set list.
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Yeah, so it's extremely intricate and ancient.
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Look how intricate what I thought was simple turns out to be.
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So I miss some of those very fine intricate details.
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This is a very intricate process.
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The boys look on as the two men paint an intricate design on the shafts.
Fiction book (1992) -
The garden side of the wall was inlaid with an intricate mosaic, nearly covered over by ivy.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
876
5.4
Difficult to understand or deal with because it has many connected parts
648
5.6
Not simple because it has many connected parts
353
3.7
Having many small parts or facts that you can see
279
6.8
A machine or system with many advanced parts and careful design
179
4.9
Very detailed with many small parts or decorations
31
8.6
Very complicated and hard to follow, often not needed
16
6.6
Complicated and hard to understand
4
6.8
Very complicated and hard to follow, like rules or relationships
2
7.9
Hard to do because it has small, delicate parts
Antonyms
Compounds
2
5.1
A detailed, complex design that has many connected parts like leaves or flowers
How Complex
Surface Forms
Etymology
Intricate comes from old Latin parts in- 'in' and trica 'tangle', so it originally meant something caught up or 'entangled'. That's why intricate now describes things with many small, connected parts and is often 'complicated'.