complex

Plural: complexes, complices

Noun

• a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
  • "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"
• a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
• (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
• a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
• A problem.
• A network of interconnected systems.
• A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
• A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
• A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
• A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
• A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
• A complex number.
• A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.

Adjective

• Consisting of many different and connected parts; complicated.
• complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
  • "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"
  • "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

Adj

• Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
• Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
• Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
• Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
• Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
• A curve, polygonderi or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

Verb

Verb Forms: complexed, complexing, complexes

• To make something more complicated or intricate.
• To form a complex with another substance
• To complicate.

Examples

• a complex being; a complex idea
• Adding a second seven-letter word on the board would complex the game significantly.
• complex algebraic variety
• complex function
• complex number
• complex polynomial
• function of a complex variable
• Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.
• military-industrial complex
• Some Scrabble strategies are so complex they require deep study.
• The fire complex began as two separate fires.
• The human body is a complex system made up of many layers.

Synonyms

building complex, composite, coordination compound, Gordian, complex, complexed, complicate, complicated, constellation, convoluted, detailed, difficult, hard, intricate, involutional, involved, knotty, labyrinthal, labyrinthine, manifold, species aggregate, species complex, species group, tough

Antonyms

simple, basic, challenging, complex, difficult, easy, esoteric, hard, incomplex, noncomplex, noncomplicated, simplex, straightforward, tough, tricky, uncomplex, uncomplexed, uncomplicated, unconvoluted, uneath

Related Words

complexion, complexity, complication, symplectic

Anagrams of complex