Definition of Intricate

1. Adjective. Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate. "Intricate lacework"

Similar to: Complex

Definition of Intricate

1. a. Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.

2. v. t. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.

Definition of Intricate

1. Adjective. having a great deal of fine detail or complexity ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become enmeshed or entangled. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intricate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intricate

intrenches
intrenching
intrenchment
intrenchments
intrepid
intrepidities
intrepidity
intrepidly
intrepidness
intrepidnesses
intrest
intresting
intricable
intricacies
intricacy
intricate (current term)
intricated
intricately
intricateness
intricatenesses
intricates
intricating
intrication
intrications
intrichi
intrico
intricoes
intrigant
intrigante
intrigants

Literary usage of Intricate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"The Jury which had the Affair of Watson as. and Matthews before them, that was so intricate as to take up several Days Time, for their close Examination ..."

2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"Even so did I, led astray, perhaps, by the classical example of Miss Daw, see-saw for year after year, out and in, of manoeuvres the most intricate, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The rampart itself was usually twelve feet high, armed with a line of strong and intricate palisades, and defended by a ditch of twelve feet in depth as ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... and yet the purport of it is to prove that there is " a dead silence on the part of the Church on the intricate problem of human life. ..."

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