complexifyv.
a. transitive. To make complex or complicated. rare.
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1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry III. 140 There is an underplot..which complexifies the incidents.
b. intransitive. To become (more) complex or complicated. rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > be or become complicated [verb (intransitive)]
enfold1605
complicate1873
complexify1914
1914 P. Geddes Sex iv. 94 The tendency in matter to complexify.
Derivatives
comˌplexifiˈcation n.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > becoming complicated
complexifying1923
complexification1929
1929 H. B. Alexander Truth & Faith 250 No doubt there has been complexification.
1959 B. Wall tr. P. Teilhard de Chardin Phenomenon of Man i. 48 Matter has obeyed from the beginning..the law of ‘complexification’.
comˈplexifying n. the action of becoming (more) complex or complicated.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > becoming complicated
complexifying1923
complexification1929
1923 Glasgow Herald 10 Nov. 4 There is one line of complexifying which is almost certainly open, and that is an increase in the intricacy of inter-relations among the nerve-cells.
1932 J. A. Thomson Sci. Riddles xlvi. 297 This process of complexifying or differentiation was greatly assisted by the hand of life.
comˈplexified adj.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]
nice?a1500
plaited1532
intricablea1540
unsimple?1541
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
Gordian1606
involved1643
complexed1646
contortuplicated1648
complicated1656
puzzled1659
involute1669
complicatea1687
complex1715
woofed1820
snaggled1896
non-transparent1939
complexified1962
1962 C. E. Raven Teilhard de Chardin iv. 75 Having accepted the whole cosmic process as one, continuous, complexified and convergent, he can regard it with an unfaltering hope.
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