complex

Definition

  • noun: a whole made up of 'complicated' or interrelated parts
  • noun: a group of buildings, apartments, etc., that are located near each other and used for a particular purpose
  • verb: to make complex or into a complex
  • adjective: having parts that connect or go together in complicated ways
  • adjective: 'composed' of two or more parts
  • synonyms: composite

Examples

  • The diagram illustrates the 'complexity' of the cell's structure.

  • He doesn't grasp/understand the 'complexity' of the situation.

  • Her poetry is too 'complex' [='complicated'] for my taste.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) It'd be way too easy to say Stan preys on the weak simply because he's a dick. No. No, no. Stan here... ...is much more complex than that. See, according to leading psychiatrists... ...Stan's a bully for one of three reasons. One: Underneath all of that male bravado... (..)
    2009 17 Again