complicado
= confusing, elaborate, intricate, involved, taxing, tricky [trickier -comp., trickiest -sup.], complicated, knotted, tangled.
Ex: The nature of the compilation of the code led to rather little consensus, and many alternative rules, which together made the code rather confusing.
Ex: These are more elaborate then the ALA Rules, with twice the number of rules.
Ex: The terminology, much of it being either newly coined or adapted to suit the purpose at hand, is sometimes rather intricate.
Ex: There are also wide ranges of interpretation concerning title entry; for example, one of the exceptions is long titles that are involved and nondistinctive-a thoroughly subjective judgment must be made here.
Ex: It is difficult to remember the special interests of more than a few people, and hence rather taxing to provide SDI manually to more than a handful of users.
Ex: Bertrand Russell has written a great deal of sense about the tricky problem of individual liberty and achievement and its relationship to government control.
Ex: Libraries should only refer users to other information agencies when complicated, specialized, or technical expertise is required.
Ex: Its intricately knotted narrative begins in 1900 with the sequence of events leading to Oscar Wilde's deathbed conversion.
Ex: Now, let me express to you, you have, in a manner of speaking, created quite a tangled ball of yarn in this situation.
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* de aspecto complicado = complicated-looking.
* demasiado complicado = overcomplicated [over-complicated].
* ¡En qué lío cada vez más complicado nos metemos al mentir! = O what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!.
* fractura complicada = compound fracture.
* más complicado de lo que parece = more than meets the eye.
* poco complicado = uncomplicated, uncomplicatedly.
* supercomplicado = hyper-complicated.
* trabajo complicado = major exercise.