complex

Meanings

Plural: complexes, complices

Noun

• a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
  • "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town"
• a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
• (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
• a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
• A problem.
• A network of interconnected systems.
• A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
• An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• A collection of ideas caused by repressed emotions that leads to an abnormal mental condition
• A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
• A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
• A complex number.
• A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.

Adjective

• complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
  • "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"
  • "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

Adj

• Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
• Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
• Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
• Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
• Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
• A curve, polygonderi or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

Verb

• To form a complex with another substance
• To complicate.

Synonyms

building complex, complex, complexed, complicate, complicated, composite, constellation, convoluted, coordination compound, detailed, difficult, Gordian, hard, intricate, involutional, involved, knotty, labyrinthal, labyrinthine, manifold, species aggregate, species complex, species group, tough

Antonyms

basic, challenging, complex, difficult, easy, esoteric, hard, incomplex, noncomplex, noncomplicated, simple, simplex, straightforward, tough, tricky, uncomplex, uncomplexed, uncomplicated, unconvoluted, uneath

Related Words

complexion, complexity, complication, symplectic

Anagrams of complex