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Meaning complex meaning

What does complex mean?
Definitions in simple English

complex Adjective

— If something is complex, it has lots of parts or pieces, or is difficult to understand. He has constructed a complex computer system to send translated messages between humans and dolphins. A complex problem that we face today is poverty, especially in Africa.

complex Noun

— A problem. — A group of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base. — A psychologically based dislike or fear of a particular thing. Jim has a complex about working for a woman boss. — A thunderstorm that forms when two storm fronts collide. — A structure with a central atom or molecule that has a weak connection to atoms or molecules around it.

complex

— adjective complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody a complex mass of diverse laws and customs — noun a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town — noun a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated — noun (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior — noun (= building complex) a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

Synonyms complex synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as complex?

complex English » English

complicated intricate composite compound involved difficult troublesome syndrome multiple knotty integrated comprehensive combined sticky sophisticated set recondite puzzling perplexed group elaborate coordination compound convoluted cluster building complex aggregate abstruse vexatious versatile unit uniset total time-consuming tangled synthetics sinuous resultant principal station polymetallic polybasic plurality pluralism plant perplexing nature mystique multipurpose multiplicate multifaceted modest

Topics complex topics

What do people use complex to talk about?
Physical actions Arrange

Simple, complicated
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried
Social behavior Relationships

Neighbor

Conjugation complex conjugation

How do you conjugate complex?

complex · verb

Examples complex examples

How do I use complex in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Offensive behaviour can result from an inferiority complex.
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
The explanation may be much more complex.
The language of that tribe is as complex as any other human language.
A computer is a complex machine.
This might lead us to believe that a simple culture would make use of a simple language, that a complex culture would make use of a complex language, and so on.
The plants manufacture complex chemical compounds.
Do you know anything about complex carbohydrates?
Grammar is a very complex thing.
How complex is it?
The question is perhaps too complex for you.
Chemistry can be very complex.
What seems simple to you seems complex to me.
This story is too complex for children.
That is a very complex machine.
He has an inferiority complex.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
Tom's explanation was too complex.

Movie subtitles

Great empires are complex things.
Those planets are all going to be so hot, you can't develop something as complex as life.
The water allows the sand grains to flow together and intermingle and form more complex structures.
What if we do find complex life out there?
I mean, I know. let's get all the sick people, we'll put them in one place, and then have them treated by some semi-socialized beaker head with a God complex.
A beaker head with a God complex?
That's quite a complex pattern.
Not some place in the back of beyond, being treated by a doctor who clearly has a God complex!
There's a chance he might be hiding in the big structure at the centre of that complex.
Listen up: according to Bishop, the Senator's transmitter signal is coming from the complex, probably the main tower.
We've got armed men approaching the complex.
The North side of the complex is quieter.
Senator, what was that complex?
The complex is owned by ArmsTech Inc. along with everything in this region.
You know, you have an Oedipus complex and you won't admit it.
The heart is more complex than any other part of the body.
Life can be infernally complex.
Look, what is this dancing complex?
Don't talk yourself into a laundry complex. Nicole.
What about the senator with the anti-trust complex?
Dr. Sylvester says Stephen has a guilt complex.
That's composed of several elements that have been combined and changed by nature over thousands of years into a mixture of very complex compounds.
That indicates that the wool was dyed. with one of the coal tar dyes of the paramino complex.
An equally complex compound of equations is used by our anthropological researcher.
Escape complex obviously.
Women are complex creatures!
I am not accustomed to solving complex problems with the careless ease of your Brains Trust.
He fits perfectly into your chapters on the guilt complex.
Can anyone answer the extremely complex question I have just asked. Concerning the three Punic wars.
The helpless invalid complex must be avoided at all cost.
You're not gonna get a chance to exercise your new martyr complex. and ruin both of us.
All these years, I've been suffering from an inferiority complex.
That chip on your shoulder stems from a childhood persecution complex.
The world is more complex than that, and good must not be measured on a scale as small as Mr Land's brash heroics.
Don't start talking yourself into an inferiority complex.
Most of my friends who have an inferiority complex are right.
We call it an Oedipus complex.
Until you can commit a simple act of terror I strongly advise you to avoid anything so complex.
To continue, you've listened to a long and complex case, murder in the first degree.
The trouble with your friend Tommy. is that he's suffering from a deep guilt complex.

News and current affairs

And yet there is no denying that the world has become too intricate for any simple, overarching theory to explain complex economic, technological, demographic, and environmental shifts.
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
This challenge, however, is very complex because deleveraging and rebalancing cannot be completed overnight.
And fiscal policy is far more complex and multi-dimensional.
But, among states, even nuclear deterrence was more complex than it first looked, and that is doubly true of deterrence in the cyber domain.
The financial sector requires tougher regulation, strengthened supervision, and internationally consistent resolution mechanisms to address the problems posed by very large, global institutions that are considered too big (or too complex) to fail.
Moreover, in an era of global media and international war crimes courts, the criteria for states' use of military force have become more complex than ever.
When it comes to tackling complex political and cultural conflicts, forging international and regional alliances around a legitimate objective is more important than sheer military capacity.
Maternal mortality is a sinister consequence of this complex situation.
The tyranny of pragmatism seems to mark all of the complex dilemmas of our time.
The truth itself is far more complex than these facile comparisons, which also makes it more durable.
By linking together, and putting their curricula online, the world's universities can become even more effective in discovering and promoting science-based solutions to complex problems.
There are altogether too many complex ideas floating around that look good on paper, but might well prove deeply flawed in a big-time crisis.
These issues remain relevant today, and the establishment of rules that preserve access for all remains as much a public good now as it was then, even though some of the issues are more complex.
In more prosperous countries, African elites are motivated by a complex interplay of national pride, dietary concerns, and the pursuit of profit.
It frequently depends on very complex corporate structures, with multiple layers of holding companies, as well as privileged shares that can guarantee the continuation of control.
But in more complex cases, in which living beings collaborate to build societies or create knowledge, our scientific models are inadequate.
To be sure, this complex web of interconnected events reflects the declining global role of the US.
This increasingly complex web of intersecting national interests is the face of international diplomacy in the twenty-first century.
A country torn by sectarian violence beginning in 1975, Lebanon pitted an even more complex array of contestants against each other than Iraq does today.
While this is just one part of a much more complex story, it seems unlikely that these and other non-tradable sectors can sustain employment growth in the future.
To be sure, Obama faces a more complex diplomatic and strategic environment than Nixon faced in the 1970's.

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