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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Complicate \Com"pli*cate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Complicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Complicating}.] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
Nor can his complicated sinews fail. --Young.
Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. --Addison.
When the disease is complicated with other diseases. --Arbuthnot.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
complicated
adjective: difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "complicated": Byzantine, Daedalian, abstruse, arduous, balled up, beyond one, complex, compound, confounded, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cramp, daedal, devious, difficult, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, fancy, fouled up, garbled, gordian, hard, hard to understand, implicated, intricate, involuted, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, ornate, overtechnical, perplexed, ramified, recondite, roundabout, scrambled, screwed up, snarled, sophisticated, subtle, tangled, tangly, tough, twisted
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