What does Complicated mean?
Definitions for Complicated
ˈkɒm plɪˌkeɪ tɪdcom·pli·cat·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
complicatedadjective
difficult to analyze or understand
"a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"
Wiktionary
complicatedadjective
difficult or convoluted
It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
complicatedadjective
(Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects)
Wikipedia
Complicated
Complicated is the debut single by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, it was released on 14 May 2002 as the lead single from her debut album, Let Go. It was written by Lavigne and The Matrix (Scott Spock, Lauren Christy, and Graham Edwards), and produced by The Matrix. The single reached number one in Australia (for six weeks), New Zealand and Mexico (for nine weeks), number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and "Dilemma" featuring Kelly Rowland and number three in the United Kingdom. Based on its chart performance, the song is Lavigne's second most successful single (only behind her 2007 single "Girlfriend") and was one of the most successful releases of 2002 with sales of over 3 million copies sold worldwide. Lavigne broke a record set by Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" when "Complicated" held the number one spot on the Adult Top 40 chart for 16 weeks in a row. "Complicated" was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The song was released when Lavigne was only 17 years old.
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complicated
Complicated is an adjective that refers to something that consists of many interconnected parts and is therefore difficult to understand, analyze, or solve due to its complexity. It can refer to situations, problems, relationships, systems, or processes.
Webster Dictionary
Complicated
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Wikidata
Complicated
"Complicated" is the debut single by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released in 2002 from her debut album, Let Go. It was written by Lavigne and The Matrix, and produced by The Matrix. The single reached number one in Australia, New Zealand and Mexico, number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three in the United Kingdom. Based on its chart performance, the song is Lavigne's second most successful single and was one of the most successful releases of 2002. Lavigne broke a record set by Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" when "Complicated" held the number one spot on the Adult Top 40 chart for 16 weeks in a row. "Complicated" was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Complicated' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3545
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Complicated' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2354
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Complicated' in Adjectives Frequency: #459
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Complicated in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Complicated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Complicated in a Sentence
It took us by some surprise, there's a great affinity between the United States and India and our people, but there's also a history that is complicated and that would have made it seem highly unlikely that a U.S. president would be sitting with India's leaders at their Republic Day ceremony.
These are complicated issues but North Korea made progress on almost all of the central issues. Some places a great deal of progress, other places there's still more work to be done.
It gets complicated because it's not only Assad's air force, it's Russia's air force.
I provide advice to the President, he'll tell me what to do, and if it's illegal, guess what's going to happen ? I'm gon na say,' Mr. President, that's illegal.' Guess what he's going to do ? He's going to say,' What would be legal ?' And we'll come up with options of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is, and that's the way it works. It's not that complicated.
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.
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- معقدArabic
- объркан, сложенBulgarian
- complicatCatalan, Valencian
- komplikovanýCzech
- kompliziertGerman
- πολύπλοκοςGreek
- komplikaEsperanto
- complicadoSpanish
- پیچیدهPersian
- monimutkainen, sekavaFinnish
- compliqué, alambiquéFrench
- castaIrish
- מורכב, מסובכת, מסובךHebrew
- դժվար, բարդArmenian
- rumitIndonesian
- 複雑Japanese
- ჩახლართული, არეულ-დარეული, გართულებული, აწეწილიGeorgian
- 복잡하다, 하다, 複雜Korean
- ingewikkeld, gecompliceerdDutch
- komplisertNorwegian
- skomplikowanyPolish
- complicadoPortuguese
- complicat, alambicatRomanian
- сложный, запутанныйRussian
- kompliceradSwedish
- క్లిష్టమైనTelugu
- karmaşıkTurkish
- phức tạp, 複雜Vietnamese
- 複雜Chinese
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