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

  • (..) As deep as lay the workers' city below the earth, so high above it towered the complex named the "Club of the Sons," with its lecture halls and libraries, its theaters and stadiums. Fathers, for whom every revolution of a machine wheel meant gold, had created for their sons the miracle of the (..)
    1927 Metropolis