Complicated
Puzzling
Puzzling adjective - Not clear to the understanding.
Complicated is a synonym for puzzling in property topic. You can use "Complicated" instead an adjective "Puzzling", if it concerns topics such as difficult.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- complex and complicated
- complex and puzzling
- difficult and complicated
- difficult and puzzling
- hard and complicated
- hard and puzzling
- abstruse and complicated
- abstruse and puzzling
- involved and complicated
- involved and puzzling
- unfathomable and complicated
- unfathomable and puzzling
- obscure and complicated
- obscure and puzzling
Both words in one sentence
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Complex means having multiple parts, complicated means puzzling.
Source: E = MC Hammer - Soap operas do this sometimes, particularly Days of Our Lives, where almost everybody is related to everyone else somehow (puzzling out the Brady/Horton/Kiriakis/DiMera family tree is so complicated that NBC even runs a commercial spot with star Ali Sweeney claiming she can't figure it out).
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