† intricableadj.
Obsolete.
Entangling, perplexing; entangled, intricately involved.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or complex
nice?a1500
perplexeda1522
perplex1534
intricablea1540
implicate1555
labyrinthed1641
complexed1646
knotted1649
complicated1656
plicated1666
complicatea1687
complex1715
Byzantine1937
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
a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 278/1 Now here haue I aunswered, to an intricable doubt.
1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. vii. 182 They shall remaine captiue, and intangled in the intricable amorous net.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 64 Schoole diuinity, A labyrinth of intricable questions, vnprofitable contentions.
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