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Synonyms for complication
ˌkɒm plɪˈkeɪ ʃəncom·pli·ca·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
complicationnoun
the act or process of complicating
Synonyms:
complicatedness, tortuousness, ramification, knottinesscomplicationnoun
a situation or condition that is complex or confused
"her coming was a serious complication"
Synonyms:
complicatedness, tortuousness, ramification, knottinesscomplicationnoun
any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
"bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis"
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complicatedness, tortuousness, ramification, knottinesscomplication, ramificationnoun
a development that complicates a situation
"the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"
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branch, forking, fork, leg, complicatedness, ramification, tortuousness, branching, knottinesscomplicatedness, complication, knottiness, tortuousnessnoun
puzzling complexity
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tortuosity, torsion, complicatedness, ramification, tortuousness, crookedness, knottiness, contortion
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
complicationnoun
Synonyms:
complexity, intricacy, entanglement
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
complicationnoun
Synonyms:
intricacy, entanglement, involution, complexity, snarl, confusion, imbroglioAntonyms:
disentanglement, simplicity
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List of paraphrases for "complication":
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2200 | branch | |
#4093 | leg | |
#5977 | complexity | |
#7405 | fork | |
#7816 | complications | |
#21338 | branching | |
#25481 | complication | |
#28943 | torsion | |
#47380 | complicating | |
#65323 | forking | |
#117351 | ramification | |
#141988 | contortion | |
#264345 | tortuosity | |
#304544 | crookedness |
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This will be the permanent record of what the material inside the core looks like before it got pushed out and divided into half-centimeter increments, the drive tube was very full, which is one of the things we learned with the CT scans, and it caused a slight complication in how we were initially planning to extrude it, but we have been able to adapt using these scans.
My mothers got respiratory issues and I certainly dont want to get something and pass it on to her and all of a sudden theres some sort of complication.
Surgery is a last resort, penile implants are much more invasive and have a higher rate of complication, especially for patients with underlying conditions like obesity and high blood pressure.
I'm less interested in whether the vaccine prevents all cases of runny noses and feeling cruddy and having to stay home from school because of the flu, that's no fun, but you get the vaccine not so much to prevent that as to prevent the chances of having a horrible complication of the flu.
It introduces a potential vulnerability where they was none before - it is a sudden new complication in an arena that China was dominating.
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