In a sentence
Six example sentences with complex, each labelled with its topic.
The billing system had grown so complex that changing one tax rate touched forty files across nine services.
Technology
The fugues are complex in a way that rewards tracing each voice separately before hearing them woven together.
Music
The clotting cascade is complex, a chain of a dozen proteins where a single missing link stops the whole sequence.
Medicine
A modern supply chain is so complex that a single phone passes through factories in a dozen countries before it is boxed.
Economics
The tax code has grown so complex that even the agency's own helpline gives different answers to the same question.
Law
The crafting system is complex, with ninety ingredients that combine differently depending on which forge you use.
Gaming
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Found in these word lists
Found in 9 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- Business English Academic Word List
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Medical Academic Word List
- Nursing Word List
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
- Science Vocabulary List
Each source is a published word list that contains complex. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.