Intricate

Adjective

 * 1) having a great deal of fine detail or complexity
 * The architecture of this clock is very intricate.

Verb

 * 1)  To become enmeshed or entangled.
 * 2) * 1864 October 18, J.E. Freund, “How to Avoid the Use of Lint”, letter to the editor, in The New York Times (1864 October 23):
 * washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.
 * 1)  To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
 * 2) * 1994 December 12, William Safire, “Avoid Dunkirk II” (essay), in The New York Times:
 * But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.

Adverbs for Intricate
perplexingly; obscurely; obstructively; hopelessly; strangely; unduly; embarrassingly; objectionably; needlessly; terribly; deliberately; tortuously; subtly; awkwardly; formidably; provokingly; unnecessarily; clumsily.

Thesaurus
Byzantine, Daedalian, Herculean, abstruse, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, anfractuous, arduous, baffling, balled up, bewildering, beyond one, blended, bothering, brutal, combined, complex, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confounded, confounding, confused, confusing, conglomerate, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, critical, daedal, dappled, dedal, delicate, demanding, devious, difficile, difficult, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, eclectic, elaborate, embarrassing, embrangled, enigmatic, entangled, equivocal, exacting, fancy, fifty-fifty, formidable, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hairy, half-and-half, hard, hard to understand, hard-earned, hard-fought, heterogeneous, implicated, indiscriminate, involuted, involved, ironic, jawbreaking, jumbled, knotted, knotty, laborious, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, many-sided, matted, mazy, mean, meandering, medley, messed up, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed up, motley, mucked up, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, mysterious, mystifying, no picnic, not easy, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, operose, ornate, overtechnical, patchy, perplexed, perplexing, perturbing, pluralistic, problematic, promiscuous, puzzling, ramified, rigorous, rococo, rough, roundabout, rugged, scrambled, screwed up, set with thorns, severe, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, spiny, steep, strenuous, subtle, syncretic, tangled, tangly, thorny, thrown together, ticklish, toilsome, tortuous, tough, tricky, twisted, uphill, upsetting, varied, wicked, winding

Etymology 1
From intricatus (past participle of intricare).

Etymology 2
As the adjective; or by analogy with extricate

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 复杂的
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, tortueux
 * German:
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 * Hebrew: ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: заплеткан
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: ,
 * Zazaki: ,

Anagrams

 * acitretin, triacetin

Adjective
intricate



Verb
intricate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense of intricare
 * 2) second-person plural imperative of intricare
 * 3) feminine plural past participle of intricare

Anagrams

 * recintati
 * trinciate