different between laborious vs complex

English

Alternative forms

• labourious (obsolete)
• laborous (obsolete)
• labourous (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??b???i?s/
• Rhymes: -???i?s

Adjective

laborious (comparative more laborious, superlative most laborious)

1. Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
2. Mentally difficult; painstaking.
3. Industrious.

Synonyms

• (requiring effort): painstaking, toilsome, worksome

Derived terms

• laboriously

Related terms

• labor, labour

Translations

English

Etymology

From French complexe, from Latin complexus, past participle of complect? (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). See complect. Doublet of complexus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?ks/, /?k?m.pl?ks/
• (US) enPR: k?mpl?ks, k?m'pl?ks; IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?ks/, /?k?mpl?ks/

Noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?m.pl?ks/
• (US) enPR: k?m'pl?ks, IPA^(key): /?k?mpl?ks/

Adjective

complex (comparative complexer or more complex, superlative complexest or most complex)

1. Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

   • Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.

2. Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is complex and difficult.

3. (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of ?1.

4. (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

5. (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.

6. (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

Synonyms

• (not simple): complicated, detailed, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, tough

Antonyms

• (not simple): basic, easy, simple, simplex, straightforward

Derived terms

• complex function
• complexify
• complexity
• complexness
• pseudocomplex

Related terms

• complexion
• (mathematics): symplectic

Translations

Noun

complex (plural complexes)

1. A problem. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. A network of interconnected systems.

3. A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
4. An assemblage of related things; a collection.

   • This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel.

   1. An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
   2. A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
   3. (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
5. (psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.
6. (informal, by extension) A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.

7. (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules.
8. (mathematics) A complex number.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

complex (third-person singular simple present complexes, present participle complexing, simple past and past participle complexed)

1. (chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance
2. (transitive) To complicate.

Translations

Further reading

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin complexus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pl?ks/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pl?ks/

Adjective

complex (feminine complexa, masculine plural complexos, feminine plural complexes)

1. complex

   Antonyms: simple, senzill

Derived terms

• nombre complex

Related terms

• complexitat

Noun

complex m (plural complexos)

1. complex (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “complex” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “complex” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “complex” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “complex” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French complexe or German komplex, from Latin complexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pl?ks/
• Hyphenation: com?plex
• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

complex (comparative complexer, superlative meest complex or complext)

1. complex (composite)
2. complex (complicated)
3. (mathematics) complex (containing an imaginary component or involving imaginary numbers)

Inflection

Derived terms

• complex getal
• complexiteit

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kompleks

Noun

complex n (plural complexen, diminutive complexje n)

1. complex (collection of buildings or facilities with a common purpose)
2. (psychoanalysis) complex (abnormal mental state caused by repression)

Derived terms

• gebouwencomplex
• inferioriteitscomplex
• meerderwaarigheidscomplex
• minderwaardigheidscomplex
• sportcomplex
• superioriteitscomplex
• tempelcomplex

Related terms

• complicatie
• gecompliceerd

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kompleks

Romanian

Etymology

From French complexe, from Latin complexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kom?pleks]

Adjective

complex m or n (feminine singular complex?, masculine plural complec?i, feminine and neuter plural complexe)

1. complex

Declension

Antonyms

• simplu

Related terms

• complexitate

Further reading

• complex in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)