deep, hidden, crabbed; undecipherable, enigmatic, cryptic, puzzling, perplexing, bewildering; impenetrable, mazy, labyrinthine, Class. Myth. Daedalian; roundabout, winding, circuitous, convoluted; tortuous, sinuous, meandering, anfractuous, flexuous. -n. 3. network, structure, organization, conglomerate, combination; totality, ensemble, conglomeration, aggregation, congeries; web, webwork, labyrinth, tangle, entanglement, complication, involution.
4. obsession, fixation, mania; fancy, notion, delusion; quirk, fixed idea, Fr. idee fixe, preoccupation. complexion, n. 1. tone color, coloration, coloring, pigmentation; cast, tinge, tint.
2. appearance, aspect, character, look, stamp; likeness, lines, carriage, bearing, outward show; face, mien, countenance, front, visage, semblance; color, nature, contour, angle, effect; tone, tenor, quality, presence; phase, manifestation, guise, favor, light, air, demeanor, expression.
3. viewpoint, attitude, posture, disposition, leaning, tendency; turn, mood, temper, spirit; figure, shape, image, composition, constitution, make-up, Archaic. crasis. complexity, n. 1. intricacy, network, complex, complicacy; web, webwork, tangle, tangled skein, sleave; coil, twist, involution, circuity, tortuosity, sinuosity, meander, ambagiousness, flexuosity.
2. complication, problem, perplexity, puzzle, riddle, bafflement, knot, Gordian knot; wilderness, jungle, labyrinth, maze; difficulty, entanglement, involvement, imbroglio; predicament, plight, quandary, dilemma, Inf. stew; kink, gnarl, knotty point, paradox,* implication, ramification; wheels within wheels, Chinese boxes, incomprehensibility, unintelligibility, obscurity. compliance, n. 1. acquiescence, yielding, assent, abidance, submission; adaptability, agreeableness, complaisance, tractableness, tractability, malleability, malleableness, pliancy; respectfulness, dutifulness, faithfulness, biddableness, deference, capitulation; meekness, docility, timidity, passiveness.
2. subservience, servility, obeisance, ingratiation, subjection, slavishness, abasement, prostration, toadyism; cringing, fawning, bowing, scraping, cowering, truckling, SI. bootlicking, bending; self-renunciation, self-surrender, self-effacement.
3. obedience, observance, conformity, abidance; accordance, concession, accedence; cooperation, collaboration, responsiveness. compliant, adj. 1. acquiescent, yielding, submissive, malleable, ductile, flexible, pliant; accommodating, agreeable, adapting, adaptable, tractable, disposed, inclined; dutiful, faithful, manageable, willing, capitulating, complying, obliging, obeying, nonresisting, unassertive, assenting; respectful, deferential; docile, timid, gentle, meek, passive, subdued.
2. subservient, servile, obsequious, ingratiating, obeisant, prostrate, Archaic, sequacious; truckling, bowing, scraping, fawning, cowering, cringing, crawling, toadying, toadyish, Inf. bootlicking; self-effacing, self-surrendering, self-abasing. complicate, v. 1. involve, make complex, make intricate; maneuver, scheme, contrive, manipulate, juggle; plan, plot, cast, frame, brew, hatch, concoct, devise.
2. embroil, entangle, snarl, tangle, muddle, mix up, jumble, SI. mess up, SI. screw up; clog, encumber, hinder, hobble, handicap, impede, hamper; confound, vex, bedevil, confuse; obscure, obfuscate, darken, conceal.
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