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