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intricate adjective [ ˈɪntrɪkət ]

• very complicated or detailed.
• "an intricate network of canals"
Similar: complex, complicated, convoluted, tangled, entangled, ravelled, twisted, knotty, maze-like, labyrinthine, winding, serpentine, circuitous, sinuous, elaborate, ornate, detailed, Byzantine, Daedalian, Gordian, involved, mixed up, difficult, hard, fiddly, involute, involuted,
Opposite: simple, straightforward,
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin intricat- ‘entangled’, from the verb intricare, from in- ‘into’ + tricae ‘tricks, perplexities’.


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