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Verb: complicate  'kóm-pli,keyt
  1. Make more complicated
    "There was a new development that complicated the matter";
    - perplex
     
  2. Make more complex, intricate, or rich
    "complicate a design or pattern";
    - refine, rarify [rare], elaborate, rarefy

Derived forms: complicated, complicates, complicating

Type of: alter, change, modify

Antonym: simplify

Nearest

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