Complex and Plain

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Complex

Complex adjective - Having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated.
Usage example: complex issues regarding free speech and school discipline
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Plain is an antonym for complex in topics: involved, difficult to understand.
Nearby Words: complicated, complicate, complexion, complexity, complexly

Plain

Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.
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Complex is an antonym for plain in topics: clear, normal, ugly, unembellished, straightforward in speech.
Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint
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How words are described

full full complex full plain
single single complex single plain
entire entire complex entire plain
large large complex large plain
Other adjectives: big, huge, little, bad, mysterious, vast, largest.

Both words in one sentence

  • Comedy is often derived from this when the characters get something complex, eloquent or otherwise plain long from a short phrase like "ook".
    Source: Intelligible Unintelligible
  • Videogame / Portal 2 Really, the whole of Aperture probably counts, considering how complex and just plain ridiculously huge the place is.
    Source: Videogame / Portal 2
  • Hiding the secret in plain sight, they even called their prison building complex The Pentagon.
    Source: Sealed Evil In A Can / Literature
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