complex
Definitions
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- complex, sophisticated, intricate (made of multiple parts)
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- An idea which is partly or wholly repressed, but which determines your opinion of yourself, may produce a complex. A woman may not consciously recall being teased as a child for being fat, for instance, but the idea may remain in her unconscious and as a result she may develop a complex about her appearance, whatever her adult build.
- complex, complicated (complicated; not straightforward)
- Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite: complex equipment with multiple components.
- Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- Difficult to understand for being intricate or involved; complicated: a complex problem.
- complex, compound (collection of buildings or facilities)
- Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Grammar a. Consisting of at least one bound form. Used of a word.
- resort, complex (where one can vacation to)
- Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts: a complex of cities and suburbs; the military-industrial complex.
- A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- A building or group of buildings used for a single purpose: a sports complex.
- In psychoanalysis, a group of related, often repressed ideas and impulses that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.
- An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear: has a complex about his weight.
- Medicine The combination of factors, symptoms, or signs of a disease or disorder that forms a syndrome.
- made up of various interconnected parts; composite
Equivalents
Examples
“a complex being; a complex idea”
“The human body is a complex system made up of many layers.”
“Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put⟳ together, I call⟳ complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe.”
“If, when the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process⟳ is complex and difficult, and if we are discontented at this, nature, and not the astronomer, must be the object of our displeasure.”
“complex number⟳”
“function of a complex variable”
“complex function”
“complex polynomial”
“complex algebraic variety”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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