Complex

Adjective

 * 1) Made up of multiple parts; intricate or detailed.
 * 2) Not simple or straightforward.
 * 3)  Of a number, of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of &minus;1.
 * 4)  A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

Noun

 * 1) A problem.
 * 2) A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
 * 3) A psychologically based dislike or fear of a particular thing.
 * 4) A thunderstorm that forms when two storm fronts collide.
 * 5)  A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.

Verb

 * 1)  To form a complex with another substance

Adjectives for Complex
repressed; haunting; sadistic; exceeding; flourishing; superior; vague; parlor; calamity; familiarity; modern; unreconciled; knitting; permanent; inferiority; narcissistic.

Verbs for Complex
affect by—; analyze—; attribute to—; banish—; comprehend—; develop—; disentangle—; form—; indicate—; interpret—.

Adverbs for Complex
bewilderingly; disturbingly;  irritatingly; needlessly; seriously; embarrassingly; ambiguously; evasively; strangely; oddly; exceedingly; vaguely; astonishingly; bafflingly; unintelligibly; unnecessarily; tiresomely; painfully; harassingly; impossibly; intricately; perplexingly; confusingly; confoundedly; plaguedly; disconcertingly.

Synonyms for Complex

 * detailed, intricate
 * complicated, difficult, hard, involved, tough

Antonyms for Complex

 * (intricate):
 * (not simple): basic, easy, simple, straightforward

Derived terms

 * complexity
 * complexness
 * military-industrial complex
 * Oedipus complex
 * vitamin B complex
 * protein complex

Related terms

 * complexion;
 * symplectic

Thesaurus
abstruse, acculturation, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, arduous, baffling, balled up, bewildering, beyond one, blended, brutal, can of worms, castration complex, civilization, collectivity, combined, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, compulsion, confounded, confounding, confused, confusing, conglomerate, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, critical, cultural drift, culture, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, daedal, dappled, delicate, demanding, devious, difficile, difficult, distracting, disturbing, eclectic, elaborate, embodiment, embrangled, entangled, entirety, equivocal, ethos, exacting, fascination, father complex, fifty-fifty, fixation, fixed idea, folkways, formidable, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hairy, half-and-half, hang-up, hard, hard to understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, heterogeneous, hypercathexis, idee fixe, implicated, indiscriminate, inferiority complex, integer, integration, integrity, intricate, involute, involuted, involved, ironic, irresistible impulse, jawbreaking, jumbled, jungle, key trait, knot, knotted, knotty, laborious, labyrinth, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, many-sided, matted, maze, mazy, mean, meander, meandering, medley, mesh, mess, messed up, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed up, mixed-up, monomania, morbid drive, mores, mother complex, motley, mucked up, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, mysterious, mystifying, no picnic, not easy, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, obsession, obsessive compulsion, oneness, operose, organic unity, overtechnical, parent complex, patchy, perplex, perplexed, perplexing, persecution complex, pluralistic, possession, preoccupation, prepossession, promiscuous, puzzling, ramified, ravel, reticular, rigorous, rough, roundabout, rugged, ruling passion, scrambled, screwed up, set with thorns, severe, snafu, snake pit, snarl, snarled, society, sophisticated, spiny, steep, strenuous, subtle, superiority complex, syncretic, tangle, tangled, tangled skein, tangly, thorny, thrown together, tic, ticklish, toilsome, totality, tough, trait, trait-complex, tricky, twisted, unity, uphill, vague, varied, webwork, wheels within wheels, whole, wicked, wilderness

Etymology
From complexe:, from  complexus:, past participle of complecti:, from com-: and plectere:.

Pronunciation

 * Adjective


 * Noun

Adjective

 * Armenian: խճճված,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: complex, ingewikkeld
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: מורכב (murkav), מורכבת (murkevet)
 * Japanese: 入り組んだ (irikunda), 難解 (nankai) (-な -na)


 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సంక్లిష్టమైన (samklishtamaina)


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, труден
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 複雜, 复杂 (fùzá)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kompleksa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Haitian Creole:


 * Hebrew: מורכב (murkav), מורכבת (murkevet)
 * Japanese: (-な -na)
 * Polish: skomplikowany, złożony
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: సంక్లిష్టమైన (samklishtamaina)


 * Armenian: կոմպլեքս
 * Bulgarian: комплексен
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kompleksa
 * Finnish: kompleksi- (in compounds)
 * French:


 * Greek: (migadikós)
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 複素 (in compounds)
 * Polish: zespolony
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: karmaşık

Noun

 * Bulgarian: комплекс
 * Cantonese: 綜合大樓
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Irish: ollionad
 * Manx: ard-hroggalys
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: コンプレックス
 * Polish:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Japanese: 錯体

Verb

 * Bulgarian: образувам комплекс


 * Italian:

Adjective

 * 1) complex

Noun

 * 1) complex

Etymology
'' complexe: < complexus:

Adjective

 * 1) complex