complicate

Other forms of complicate

past tense

complicated·

present participle

complicating·

third person

complicates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about complicate

What does complicate mean?

complicate means "make more complicated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in complicate?

complicate has 3 syllables: com-pli-cate. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmpləˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for complicate?

Close synonyms include perplex, refine, rarify, elaborate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of complicate?

The recorded antonyms are simplify.

Is complicate a common word?

complicate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with complicate?

34 words rhyme with complicate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.