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noun
The act or process of complicating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, horology, lifestyle
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Broader terms: bells and whistles
noun
A twisting or intertwining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
the act or process of complicating
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hindrance, hinderance, interference
noun
puzzling complexity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness
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Broader terms: complexity, complexness
noun
a development that complicates a situation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ramification
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Broader terms: development
noun
a situation or condition that is complex or confused
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: situation, state of affairs
noun
any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: disease
History
Borrowed from Middle French complication, from Latin complicatio, complicationem. Morphologically complicate + -ion.
Across languages
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
