intricateadjective
uk/ˈɪn.trɪ.kət/us/ˈɪn.trə.kət/having a lot of small parts or details that are arranged in a complicated way and are therefore sometimes difficult to understand, solve, or produce:
The watch mechanism is extremely intricate and very difficult to repair.
Police officers uncovered an intricate web of deceit.
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Complexity
- a paper chase idiom
- advanced
- all-singing
- be more to sth than meets the eye idiom
- bleeding-edge
- equation
- fancy
- finicky
- high-tech
- intractable
- intricacy
- many-sided
- plot
- purple
- sophisticated
- tangled
- the plot thickens idiom
- thereby
- thereby hangs a tale idiom
- wheel
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Detailed and careful
intricately
adverb uk/ˈɪn.trɪ.kət.li/us/ˈɪn.trə.kət.li/
an intricately engraved pendant