Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to complicate
Participle: complicated
Gerund: complicating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | complicate |
| you | complicate |
| he;she;it | complicates |
| we | complicate |
| you | complicate |
| they | complicate |
Perfect
| I | have complicated |
| you | have complicated |
| he;she;it | has complicated |
| we | have complicated |
| you | have complicated |
| they | have complicated |
Past
| I | complicated |
| you | complicated |
| he;she;it | complicated |
| we | complicated |
| you | complicated |
| they | complicated |
Pluperfect
| I | had complicated |
| you | had complicated |
| he;she;it | had complicated |
| we | had complicated |
| you | had complicated |
| they | had complicated |
Future
| I | will complicate |
| you | will complicate |
| he;she;it | will complicate |
| we | will complicate |
| you | will complicate |
| they | will complicate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have complicated |
| you | will have complicated |
| he;she;it | will have complicated |
| we | will have complicated |
| you | will have complicated |
| they | will have complicated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | complicate |
| you | complicate |
| he;she;it | complicate |
| we | complicate |
| you | complicate |
| they | complicate |
Perfect
| I | have complicated |
| you | have complicated |
| he;she;it | have complicated |
| we | have complicated |
| you | have complicated |
| they | have complicated |
Imperfect
| I | complicated |
| you | complicated |
| he;she;it | complicated |
| we | complicated |
| you | complicated |
| they | complicated |
Pluperfect
| I | had complicated |
| you | had complicated |
| he;she;it | had complicated |
| we | had complicated |
| you | had complicated |
| they | had complicated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would complicate |
| you | would complicate |
| he;she;it | would complicate |
| we | would complicate |
| you | would complicate |
| they | would complicate |
Perfect
| I | would have complicated |
| you | would have complicated |
| he;she;it | would have complicated |
| we | would have complicated |
| you | would have complicated |
| they | would have complicated |
Imperative
| you | complicate |
| we | Let's complicate |
| you | complicate |
Verbs conjugated like 'complicate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'complicate'
compilate,
complanate,
decomplicate,
implicate,
recomplicate,
simplicate,
uncomplicate,
ampliate,
applicate,
co-locate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to complicate
- jazz
- involve in a convoluted matter
- embroil, entangle, intricate, mire, mix up
- to render someone less able to understand
- baffle, befuddle, bewilder, confuddle, confuse, confuzzle, dazzle, discombobulate, disconcert, dumbfound, flabagast, flabbergast, flabbergaster, flummox, jumble, knot, perplex, puzzle
- to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult
- complex, complexify, complify, confuscate, involve, jazz
- To develop in complexity.
- elaborate
- To make something overly complicated.
- make a meal of
- To make intricate or complicated.
- perplex
- perplex
- confound, entangle, confuse, obscure, muddle, conceal, tangle, ravel
- involve
- manipulate, convolute, contrive, interrelate, weave, braid, fold
Antonyms
- to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult
- decomplexify, simplify, uncomplicate
- perplex
- clarify, inform, enlighten, elucidate
- involve
- exclude, remove, separate, preclude
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested in the early 17th century; borrowed from Latin complicātus, perfect passive participle of complicō (“to fold together, fold up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“with, together with, in the company of, in connection with, along with, together, and”) + plicō (“to fold, wind, coil”); see plaid, and compare complex. See also Middle English complicate (“involved”).Verbs referencing "complicate"
Ido komplikar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to their apartment for the night. He was lounging in a large easy-chair, looking over some letters that had come in the afternoon mail, and she was standing before her mirror, brushing out the complicated braids and curls in which Eliza had arranged her hair; for, noticing her pale cheeks and haggard eyes, she had excused her attendance that night, and ordered her to bed. The employment, naturally [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] very little in them; so that although there is every appearance of a mighty ‘spread, ’ there is seldom really more than a joint: except for those who fancy slices of beet-root, shreds of dried beef, complicated entanglements of yellow pickle; maize, Indian corn, apple-sauce, and pumpkin.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] all moved obediently to Rachel's gentle “ Thee had better, ” or more gentle “ Hadn't thee better ? ” in the work of getting breakfast; for a breakfast in the luxurious valleys of Indiana is a thing complicated and multiform, and, like picking up the rose-leaves and trimming the bushes in Paradise, asking other hands than those of the original mother. While, therefore, John ran to the spring for fresh [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)