COMPLEX Synonyms

• difficult to analyze or understand

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• connected by participation or association or use

• entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• emotionally involved

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• enveloped

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it

• of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

• a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• rolled longitudinally upon itself

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• hard to pass through because of dense growth

• having high relative density or specific gravity

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• having component parts closely crowded together

• marked by complexity and richness of detail

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• work out in detail

• of an obscure nature

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• tangled in knots or snarls

• relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear

• resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• not clear to the understanding

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• in a confused mass

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

• bristling with perplexities

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• not to be trusted

• having concealed difficulty

• marked by skill in deception