Complicate Complicated I Matters Transport Till Greatly Verb

• i do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.
• to complicate matters further, there will be no transport available till 8 o'clock.
• the issue is complicated by the fact that a vital document is missing.
• these events will greatly complicate the situation.

complicate

1. to make something more difficult to do, understand or deal with
• I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary.
• To complicate matters further, there will be no transport available till 8 o'clock.
• The issue is complicated by the fact that a vital document is missing.

Extra Examples

• These events will greatly complicate the situation.
• The situation is further complicated by the language difficulties.
• This latest bloodshed greatly complicates efforts to bring peace to the region.
• To complicate matters further, there will be no transport available till 8 o’clock.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they complicate
• he / she / it complicates
• past simple complicated
• past participle complicated
• -ing form complicating

Word Origin

• early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘combine, entangle, intertwine’): from Latin complicat- ‘folded together’, from the verb complicare, from com- ‘together’ + plicare ‘to fold’.