Word Meanings - COMPLEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

around, comprise; com- + plectere to twist, akin to plicare to fold. 1. Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea. Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex;

Additional info about word: COMPLEX

around, comprise; com- + plectere to twist, akin to plicare to fold. 1. Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea. Ideas thus made up of several simple ones put together, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, an army, the universe. Locke. 2. Involving many parts; complicated; intricate. When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number , in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are ordinary integers. Syn. -- See Intricate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPLEX)

• Confused
• Abashed
• embarrassed
• perplexed
• disconcerted
• disorganized
• promiscuous
• chaotic
• complex
• involved
• disarranged
• disordered

Related words: (words related to COMPLEX)

• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• CHAOTIC
  Resembling chaos; confused.
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• CHAOTICALLY
  In a chaotic manner.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• COMPLEXUS
  A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
• CONFUSABILITY
  Capability of being confused.
• ABASH
  To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• COMPLEXEDNESS
  The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.
• PERPLEXLY
  Perplexedly. Milton.
• CONFUSEDNESS
  A state of confusion. Norris.
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• PROMISCUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being promiscuous.
• PROMISCUOUSLY
  In a promiscuous manner.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
• UNEMBARRASSMENT
  Freedom from embarrassment.