different between complication vs complicate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French complication, from Latin complicatio, complicationem.Morphologically complicate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

complication (countable and uncountable, plural complications)

1. The act or process of complicating.
2. The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
3. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
4. (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
5. (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.

Translations

Further reading

• complication (medicine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• complication (horology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• complication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “complication”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• accomplition

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin complicatio, complicationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pli.ka.sj??/
• Rhymes: -sj??
• Homophone: complications
• Hyphenation: com?pli?ca?tion

Noun

complication f (plural complications)

1. complication

Antonyms

• simplification

Further reading

• “complication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

complication (plural complicationes)

1. complication

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin complicatus, past participle of complicare (“to fold together”), from com- (“together”) + plicare (“to fold, weave, knit”); see plaid, and compare complex.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?mpl?ke?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mpl?ke?t/
• Hyphenation: com?pli?cate

Verb

complicate (third-person singular simple present complicates, present participle complicating, simple past and past participle complicated)

1. (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
   • 1896, Arthur Edward Waite, Devil-Worship in France, or the Question of Lucifer Chapter 14

     Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.

2. (transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter.

   Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.

   John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.

   The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.

Synonyms

• (involve in a convoluted matter): intricate, entangle, embroil, mix up (in something), mire

Related terms

• complication
• explicate

Translations

See also

• complex

Adjective

complicate (comparative more complicate, superlative most complicate)

1. (obsolete) Intertwined.
2. (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.
   • 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:

     How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!

Further reading

• complicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• complicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

complicate

1. feminine plural of complicato

Verb

complicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of complicare
2. second-person plural imperative of complicare
3. feminine plural of complicato

Latin

Verb

complic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of complic?