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Synonyms for complication
ˌkɒm plɪˈkeɪ ʃəncom·pli·ca·tion

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  1. complicationnoun

    the act or process of complicating

    Synonyms:
    complicatedness, tortuousness, ramification, knottiness

  2. complicationnoun

    a situation or condition that is complex or confused

    "her coming was a serious complication"

    Synonyms:
    complicatedness, tortuousness, ramification, knottiness

  3. complicationnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    complicatedness, tortuousness, ramification, knottiness

  4. complication, ramificationnoun

    a development that complicates a situation

    "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"

    Synonyms:
    branch, forking, fork, leg, complicatedness, ramification, tortuousness, branching, knottiness

  5. complicatedness, complication, knottiness, tortuousnessnoun

    puzzling complexity

    Synonyms:
    tortuosity, torsion, complicatedness, ramification, tortuousness, crookedness, knottiness, contortion

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. complicationnoun

    Synonyms:
    complexity, intricacy, entanglement

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  1. complicationnoun

    Synonyms:
    intricacy, entanglement, involution, complexity, snarl, confusion, imbroglio

    Antonyms:
    disentanglement, simplicity

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "complication":

    complications, complicating, complexity

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How to use complication in a sentence?

  1. Ryan Zeigler:

    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.

  2. Tiger Woods:

    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.

  3. Tom Lue:

    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.

  4. Adam Ratner:

    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.

  5. Trevor Hollingsbee:

    It introduces a potential vulnerability where they was none before - it is a sudden new complication in an arena that China was dominating.


Translations for complication

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  • تعقيدArabic
  • усложнение, затруднениеBulgarian
  • KomplikationGerman
  • complicationFrench
  • осложнение, усложнение, затруднениеRussian
  • svit, förveckling, komplikationSwedish

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