complicate
Add unnecessary difficulty
To complicate is to make something more difficult or involved than it needs to be: Let's not complicate things.
Adding variables, conditions, or obstacles complicates a situation.
A complicating factor introduces new difficulty.
Medical conditions that worsen or trigger other problems are complications.
The adjective complicated describes anything intricate or hard to understand: It's complicated.
To thoroughly puzzle
- perplexCause utter confusion
- baffleConfuse or perplex
- bewilderCause utter confusion
- muddleDisordered, bewildered state
obfuscate · mystify · befuddle · puzzle · stump · flummox · disconcert · nonplus
Involve in strife
- enmeshCatch in interwoven strands
- ensnareCatch by trickery
- entangleTwist into confusion
- implicateSuggest involvement in wrongdoing
involve · entwine · interweave · mire · snare · trap · web · tangle
Elaborately detailed, many parts
- convoluteRoll or twist together
- elaborateComplex and detailed
- sophisticateWorldly, cultured person
- layerSingle thickness of material
nuance · multiply · diversify · ramify · branch · proliferate · expand · extend
confound
To thoroughly puzzle
muddle · obfuscate · mystify · befuddle · puzzle · stump · flummox · disconcert · nonplus · discombobulate
embroil
Involve in strife
implicate · involve · entwine · interweave · mire · snare · trap · web · tangle · snarl
intricate
Elaborately detailed, many parts
- convoluteRoll or twist together
- elaborateComplex and detailed
- sophisticateWorldly, cultured person
layer · nuance · multiply · diversify · ramify · branch · proliferate · expand · extend · detail
exacerbate
Make a situation worse
intensify · worsen · deepen · heighten · amplify · magnify · inflame · provoke · stir up · fan the flames
hinder
Obstruct or delay
burden · handicap · frustrate · thwart · stymie · block · delay · setback · obstacle · barrier
- escalationescalation, escalate, ratchet up, worsen, intensify
- stunstun, daze, shock, stupefy, stagger
- intrusionsintrusion, intrude, intruder, intruding, barging in
complicatesimplify
Make less complex
uncomplicate · streamline · untangle · disentangle · unravel
complicateuntangle
Undo knots or confusion
disentangle · unravel · unsnarl · unknot · straighten out
- it's complicatedDefies easy explanation
- not complicatedEasy to understand
- birth complicationsDangerous events during delivery
- overly complicated
- pregnancy complicationsHealth problems during gestation
- flu complicationsMedical problems following influenza
complicated, complication, uncomplicated, complications, complicates, complicating, overcomplicate, overcomplicated, uncomplicate