Intricate /(?)/

In·tri·cate

Intricate

a.
  1. Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
    His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
    The nature of man is intricate.
Syn. -- Intricate, Complex, Complicated.

A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be unraveled.

Intricate

v. t.
  1. To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.]
    It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses.