Anagram Solver

Definitions for Complex

[1] composed of many interconnected parts; compound; composite: a complex highway system.
[2] characterized by a very complicated or involved arrangement of parts, units, etc.: complex machinery.
[3] so complicated or intricate as to be hard to understand or deal with: a complex problem.
[4] Grammar . (of a word) consisting of two parts, at least one of which is a bound form, as childish, which consists of the word child and the bound form -ish. complex sentence.
[5] Mathematics . pertaining to or using complex numbers: complex methods; complex vector space.
[6] an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
[7] Psychology . a system of interrelated, emotion-charged ideas, feelings, memories, and impulses that is usually repressed and that gives rise to abnormal or pathological behavior.
[8] a fixed idea; an obsessive notion.
[9] Mathematics . an arbitrary set of elements of a group. a collection of simplexes having specified properties.
[10] Also called coordination compound. Chemistry . a compound in which independently existing molecules or ions of a nonmetal (complexing agent) form coordinate bonds with a metal atom or ion. Compare ligand(def 2) .
[11] Biochemistry . an entity composed of molecules in which the constituents maintain much of their chemical identity: receptor-hormone complex, enzyme-substrate complex.
[12] Chemistry . to form a complex with.
[13] Chemistry . to form a complex.
[14] made up of various interconnected parts; composite
[15] (of thoughts, writing, etc) intricate or involved
[16] grammar (of a word) containing at least one bound form (of a noun phrase) containing both a lexical noun and an embedded clause, as for example the italicized parts of the following sentence: I didn't know the man who served me (of a sentence) formed by subordination of one clause to another
[17] maths of or involving one or more complex numbers
[18] a whole made up of interconnected or related parts a building complex
[19] psychoanal a group of emotional ideas or impulses that have been banished from the conscious mind but that continue to influence a person's behaviour
[20] informal an obsession or excessive fear he's got a complex about cats
[21] Also called: coordination compound a chemical compound in which molecules, groups, or ions are attached to a central metal atom, esp a transition metal atom, by coordinate bonds
[22] any chemical compound in which one molecule is linked to another by a coordinate bond

Words related to Complex

complicated, convoluted, perplexing, sophisticated, intricate, disturbing, obscure, network, system, structure, compound, manifold, composite, conglomerate, motley, multiple, mosaic, multiplex, winding, byzantine

Words nearby Complex

completer set, completing the square, completion, completionist, completist, complex, complex absence, complex analysis, complex carbohydrate, complex conjugate, complex fraction

Origin of Complex

1645–55; 1905–10 for def 7 ; (adj.) < Latin complexus, past participle of complectī, complectere to embrace, encompass, include, equivalent to complect- (see complect) + -tus past participle suffix; (noun) < Late Latin complexus totality, complex (Latin: inclusion, grasping, embrace), equivalent to complect(ere ) + -tus suffix of v. action; reanalysis of the Latin v. as “to intertwine (completely)” has influenced sense of the adj.

Other words from Complex

com·plex·ly , adverb
com·plex·ness , noun
o·ver·com·plex , adjective
qua·si-com·plex , adjective
qua·si-com·plex·ly , adverb
su·per·com·plex , adjective
un·com·plex , adjective
un·com·plex·ly , adverb
un·com·plex·ness , noun

Word origin for Complex

C17: from Latin complexus, from complectī to entwine, from com- together + plectere to braid

Synonyms for Complex

complicated, convoluted, composite, compound, conglomerate, manifold, mosaic, motley, multiple, multiplex, circuitous, compounded, confused, elaborate, entangled, heterogeneous, knotty, labyrinthine, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed-up, multifarious, multiform, tangled, tortuous, variegated