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complication

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of complication

1 something that makes a situation more complicated or difficult

the food allergies of the guests were just another complication for the couple trying to plan their wedding reception

Synonyms of complication

complexity, complicacy, convolution, difficulty, intricacy

Words Related to complication

aftereffect, ramification, side effect (also side reaction)

subtlety, technicality

annoyance, bitch, bother, headache, inconvenience, matter, trouble

Phrases Synonymous with complication

fly in the ointment

2 an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning

complications set in after the surgery

Synonyms of complication

affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, sickness, trouble

Words Related to complication

contagion, contagious disease

contagium, infection

attack, bout, fit, spell

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness

malaise, matter, pip

epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague

Near Antonyms of complication

fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomeness

fettle, shape

Antonyms of complication

health, wellness

3 the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects

a problem of such irreducible complication as to defy any easy solution

Synonyms of complication

complexity, complexness, complicacy, complicatedness, elaborateness, intricacy, intricateness, involution, knottiness, sophistication

Words Related to complication

diversity, heterogeneity, heterogeneousness, multifariousness

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, inexplicability

Near Antonyms of complication

simplification

homogeneity, uniformity

Antonyms of complication

plainness, simpleness, simplicity

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