Intricate

Word INTRICATE
Character 9
Hyphenation in tri cate
Pronunciations /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/

Definitions and meanings of "Intricate"

What do we mean by intricate?

Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate. adjective

Difficult to understand, analyze, or solve for having many interconnected elements. synonym: complex. adjective

To render intricate or involved; make perplexing or obscure.

Perplexingly involved or entangled; hard to disentangle or disengage, or to trace out; complicated; obscure: as, an intricate knot; the intricate windings of a labyrinth; intricate accounts; the intricate plot of a tragedy.

In entomology, having unequal elevations and depressions placed irregularly and close together, but without running into each other: said of a sculptured surface.

To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. transitive verb

Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust adjective

Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity. adjective

To become enmeshed or entangled. verb

To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate. verb

Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate adjective

Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

On a broad level it refers to something that is highly complex and involved. On a more intricate level, it refers to something that has succeeded in the capture of complex details. The kind of details, like subtle mannerisms, that you take for granted in day-to-day life but are like little puzzle pieces that form the world around you, reality. That's why a lot of movies and such never seem truly realistic because they are lacking in the intricacies that inhabit the real-world. But when it happens, it's a good feeling to recognize the intricacies of the real-world successfully captured and portrayed in the fictional realm. Urban Dictionary

Complex or complicated Urban Dictionary

A word that doesn't exist. Usually used by dumbasses who really mean to use the word wordintegral/word. Urban Dictionary

To intricate someone; to bring people on board or to get them onside with an idea or a proposal or an initiative of some type by getting them intricated into the process bit by bit, almost without their noticing that they are making a commitment. Urban Dictionary

A word that is a mashup of integral and intricate, weaving together both words to form a new meaning. integral: necessary to the completeness of the whole: "This point is integral to his plan." intricate: having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: "an intricate maze." So intrical basically means something that is so important that it cannot be extricated in any way from the whole. Urban Dictionary

To taticly plan or in a certain way Urban Dictionary

To bring people on board or to get them onside with an idea or a proposal or an initiative of some type by getting them 'intricated' into the process bit by bit, almost without their noticing that they are making a commitment. Urban Dictionary

Excited and interested Urban Dictionary

An generated image with great peecise detail that you can "feel" certain textures and often emotions. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Intricate

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The word "intricate" in example sentences

In case you missed the details: Camping's latest Doomsday prediction stemmed from what he described as an intricate mathematical formulation taken directly from numbers in the Bible. ❋ Diane Dimond (2011)

The old man thrust out his tongue; and, to Pool's amazement, he saw the surface of that sensitive organ, from root to tip, tattooed in intricate designs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Zero stats offered for this assertion, despite Tino explaining in intricate detail all the externalities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's true that Gene Wolfe's command of prose is very good, and his far-future Earth-in-decline is worked out in intricate and suggestive detail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Carbon nanotube arrays can also be grown in intricate patterns using metal masks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For a moment, too, he lingers on Barry Lyndon, which reconstructs a lost world in intricate detail. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You are a desperate cry to God, moulded in intricate word-craftmanship. ❋ Unknown (2004)

However, Data General had to field a suitable machine fairly soon, because customers get married to computer companies in intricate ways, and once they've married elsewhere they're often gone for good. ❋ Unknown (1981)

So tortuous and intricate is the channel leading to the forts that the most experienced pilots of the harbour would not venture to bring in a vessel by night, under the conditions which the enemy cannot escape, viz. -- without light or landmark to guide the way. ❋ Unknown (1863)

I think you ought to check this one out, because it does contain the story about the candlestick robbery, and the pictures could definitely be called "intricate" -- lots of visual humour. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Allostasis refers to the intricate and active processes by which an organism maintains stability, or homeostasis, through adjustment and adaptation to predictable and unpredictable events. ❋ William Kent Krueger (2010)

This is the judge who can recall the intricate details of so many cases, can recall the intricate details of all of those memos he voted -- eroded (ph), excuse me, back in the Reagan days, and yet on these two issues that they think, the Democrats think are critical to these hearings, he says I can't recall. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The metrical system of the canine original, which recalls the intricate alliterative and isosyllabic rules of the Welsh englyn, is infinitely more complicated but we believe our readers will agree that the spirit has been well caught. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I recall the intricate tune that could be played only by the performer's putting in the lowest pitched note with his voice. ❋ Thomas Washington Talley (N/A)

Dutch artist Theo Jansen made his name creating intricate and elegantly haunting 30-foot-long plastic creatures that walk on their own, powered by the wind. ❋ Lauren Aaronson (2011)

Man, this [cartoon] [I am] [watching] is intricate! ❋ TimeCrime (2010)

It is an [extremely] [intricate] [system]. ❋ Pacchu Nagari (2009)

"It's an [intrical] part..." "[Intrical] isn't [a word], [dumbass]" ❋ Track-10 (2003)

When a group was trying to Bring Back the [Ottawa Senators] in 1990, a team that had not played in the National Hockey League for nearly 60 years, one of their key advisers, former US [Attorney General], Elliot Richardson (now deceased) said: "First we'll get the League’s Board of Governors [intricated] then we'll get the (expansion) franchise!" ❋ Prof Bruce (2009)

Women became a very intrical part of the [Popular] [Rights] [Movement]. ❋ Aoren22 (2011)

he intricately [led] his [squad] ❋ Uour Welcome (2017)

When a group was trying to Bring Back the [Ottawa Senators] in 1990, a team that had not played in the National Hockey League for nearly 60 years, one of their key advisers, former US [Attorney General], Elliot [Richardson] (now deceased) said: "First we'll intricate the League then we'll get the (expansion) franchise!" ❋ Prof Bruce (2009)

[ted] [got] intricicated about the [envelopes] ❋ Uropiniondoesntmatterlol (2020)

It's like [reading a book] [just] to [generate] pre-set intricate imagery! ❋ 1m1m0 (2022)

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