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intricate 音标拼音: ['ɪntrəkət] a. 复杂的,错综的,缠结的,难懂的 复杂的,错综的,缠结的,难懂的 intricate adj 1: having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; " intricate lacework" Intricate \ In" tri* cate\, a. [ L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare to entangle, perplex. Cf. { Intrigue}, { Extricate}.] Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. [ 1913 Webster] His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] The nature of man is intricate. -- Burke. Syn: { Intricate}, { Complex}, { Complicated}. Usage: A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be unraveled. [ 1913 Webster]
Intricate \ In" tri* cate\, v. t. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 148 Moby Thesaurus words for " intricate": Byzantine, Daedalian, Herculean, abstruse, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, anfractuous, arduous, baffling, balled up, bewildering, beyond one, blended, bothering, brutal, combined, complex, complicated, composite, compound, compounded, confounded, confounding, confused, confusing, conglomerate, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, critical, daedal, dappled, dedal, delicate, demanding, devious, difficile, difficult, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, disturbing, eclectic, elaborate, embarrassing, embrangled, enigmatic, entangled, equivocal, exacting, fancy, fifty- fifty, formidable, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hairy, half- and- half, hard, hard to understand, hard- earned, hard- fought, heterogeneous, implicated, indiscriminate, involuted, involved, ironic, jawbreaking, jumbled, knotted, knotty, laborious, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many- faceted, many- sided, matted, mazy, mean, meandering, medley, messed up, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed up, motley, mucked up, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, mysterious, mystifying, no picnic, not easy, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, operose, ornate, overtechnical, patchy, perplexed, perplexing, perturbing, pluralistic, problematic, promiscuous, puzzling, ramified, rigorous, rococo, rough, roundabout, rugged, scrambled, screwed up, set with thorns, severe, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, spiny, steep, strenuous, subtle, syncretic, tangled, tangly, thorny, thrown together, ticklish, toilsome, tortuous, tough, tricky, twisted, uphill, upsetting, varied, wicked, winding
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