complex

Speech parts

1. complex - Noun

2. complex - Adjective

3. complex - Verb

4. complex - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

complicated involved intricate difficult hard sophisticated elaborate composite convoluted tangled knotty labyrinthine byzantine system network
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Antonyms

simple basic easy straightforward royal hall
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Hypernyms

structure construction whole compound feeling chemical compound

Hyponyms

college plant hydrochloride hybrid works syndrome

Phrases with the word

complex issue MSG symptom complex Phaedra complex Fashoda complex complex system complex problem

Examples

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. Oscar Wilde

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. Anton Chekhov

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. John Desmond Bernal

Close letter words and terms

completively completo completory complex absence complex adaptive systems complex amount