COMPLEXIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does complexify mean? 

• COMPLEXIFY (verb)
  The verb COMPLEXIFY has 2 senses:

1. have or develop complicating consequences

2. make complex

  Familiarity information: COMPLEXIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLEXIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they complexify    ... he / she / it complexifies   
Past simple: complexified   
Past participle: complexified   
-ing form: complexifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have or develop complicating consequences

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

complexify; ramify

Context example:

These actions will ramify

Hypernyms (to "complexify" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make complex

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

he unnecessarily complexified every problem

Hypernyms (to "complexify" is one way to...):

complicate; perplex (make more complicated)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

complexifier (someone makes things complex)

complexity (the quality of being intricate and compounded)