intricate
int·ri·cate
adjective
1.
- “the Byzantine tax structure”
- “convoluted legal language”
- “convoluted reasoning”
- “intricate needlework”
- “an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology”
- “the plot was too involved”
- “a knotty problem”
Origin
From Middle English intricat(e) (“entangled, intricate”), from Latin intrīcātus, perfect passive participle of intricō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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