complicateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Verb

• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑmplɪkeɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt/
• ハイフネーション: com‧pli‧cate

Adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒmplɪkət/

動詞

complicate (third-person singular simple present complicates, present participle complicating, simple past and past participle complicated)

1. (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
   • 1896, Arthur Edward Waite, “Chapter 14”, in Devil-Worship in France, or the Question of Lucifer:

     Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.

2. (transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter.

   Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.

   John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.

   The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.

3. (medicine, transitive) To coexist with (another disease) creating a complication.
   • 1909, William Heiskell Deaderick, A Practical Study of Malaria, page 232:

     Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling. Nearly every disease in the category has been confounded with malaria and classed as larvate. This heterogeneous group has been expanded to embrace diseases unrelated to malaria, diseases complicating malaria, and symptoms and sequelæ of malaria.

同意語

• (involve in a convoluted matter): intricate, entangle, embroil, involve, mix up (in something), mire

派生語

関連する語

• complication
• explicate
• implicate

参考

• complex

形容詞

complicate (comparative more complicate, superlative most complicate)

1. (obsolete) Intertwined.
2. (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.
   • 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, section I:

     How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!

派生語

• complicate fever
• complicateness (obsolete)
• complicately

Further reading

• “complicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “complicate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.