complicates

verb

(transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.

(transitive) To involve in a convoluted matter.

adjective

(now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.

(obsolete) Intertwined.

Roots

plicoplic- · Latin · fold

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The word complicates breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root plic-, from Latin plico (“fold”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.