intricate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become enmeshed or entangled. intransitive
    — […] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.
  2. To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate. transitive
    — But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
    — The architecture of this clock is very intricate.
  2. Difficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure. archaic
    — The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; Nor ſees with how much Art the Windings run, Nor where the regular Confuſion ends.

词形变化

more intricate comparative most intricate superlative intricates present,singular,third-person intricating participle,present intricated participle,past intricated past

词汇关系

反义词
extricate
衍生词
disintricate intricacy intricately intricateness overintricate unintricate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English intricat(e) (“entangled, intricate”), from Latin intrīcātus, perfect passive participle of intricō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
词源 2
As for Etymology 1; from Latin intrīcātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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