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Complicate

🔄 Synonyms of "Complicate"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
elaborateverb	Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
perplexverb	(transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
refineverb	(ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
rarifyverb	(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of rarefy. [(transitive) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.]

↔️ Antonyms of "Complicate"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
simplifyverb	(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Complicate"

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Word	Definition
elaborateverb	(transitive) Тo develop in detail or complexity.
perplexverb	(transitive) To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
refineverb	(ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
rarifyverb	(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of rarefy. [(transitive) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense.]
complexverb	A network of interconnected systems.
confuseverb	(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
impedeverb	(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
hinderverb	(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
obstructverb	To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle.
jeopardizeverb	(US) To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
holdverb	(transitive) To grasp or grip.
aggravateverb	(by extension) To make (any bad thing) worse.
worsenverb	(intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
ravelverb	(transitive) To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
makeverb	(transitive) To create.
conveneverb	(intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
compoundverb	Anything made by combining several things.
hamperverb	To impede in motion or progress.
embroilverb	To cause (someone) to be drawn into or involved in a difficult situation or state of contention.
entangleverb	(transitive) To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.