complicated applies to what offers great difficulty in understanding, solving, or explaining.

COMPLICATED definition: 1. involving a lot of different parts, in a way that is difficult to understand: 2. involving a…. Learn more.

Complicated definition: composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex.. See examples of COMPLICATED used in a sentence.

complicated in American English (ˈkɑmˌplɪˌkeɪtɪd ) adjective made up of parts intricately involved; hard to untangle, solve, understand, analyze, etc.

Definition of complicated adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

1. composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus. 2. difficult to analyze, understand, or explain: a complicated problem.

When things get complicated, they are no longer simple and straightforward. If you are asked a question that would require a long, detailed answer, you might just say, "It's complicated." The …