Intricate

Quick meaning: Intricate is an adjective meaning Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

Meaning

Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become enmeshed or entangled.
2. (transitive) To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
3. (archaic) Difficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure.

Example Sentences

The architecture of this clock is very intricate.

[…] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.

But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.

His style of writing […] was […]fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding […]with the utmost clearness.

Word Forms

• intricates
• intricating
• intricated

Synonyms for intricate

Depending on context, synonyms include fancy, convoluted, byzantine, complex, elaborate, tortuous.

Antonyms for intricate

Common opposites include extricate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include elaborate, complex, fancy, luxuriant, convoluted, tortuous.

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