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Definition: Intricacy |
IntricacyNoun1. Marked by elaborately complex detail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "intricacy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1710. (references) |
Note: Intricacy \In"tri*ca*cy\, noun; plural Intricacies. [From Intricate.]. (references) |
Synonyms: IntricacySynonyms: elaborateness (n), elaboration (n), involution (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Complexity | Noun: complexity; complexness; Adjective: complexus; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil; (convolution); sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl; webwork. |
Difficulty | Dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity; (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement, complexity; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil; (convolution); crooked path; involvement. |
Secret | Maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Intricacy |
| English words defined with "intricacy": Calculating machine ♦ Intricacies, Intricateness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "intricacy": CARVER, HAND ♦ Illuminations ♦ PROFILE TRIMMER ♦ SANDBLASTER, STONE, software metric ♦ wood carver, hand. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All sorts of rubbish added, and brought from all sides, increased the exterior intricacy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Historical factors, cultural differences, and economic disparities add further intricacy to the relationship. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Intricacy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Intricacy" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
intricacy | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "intricacy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngatërresë (complication, confusion, embroilment, entanglement, hindrance, huddle, imbroglio, mess, mix, moil, muddle, Mull, network, nodus, nonsense, nuisance, obstruction, quarrel, Ravel, razzle, razzle-dazzle, toss). (various references) | |
Arabic | معقد (busy, complicate, complicated, convoluted, deep, difficult, doctrinarian, entangled, inextricable, intricate, invalid, involute, knotted, knotty, nasty, perplexing, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tangly, tricky), تعقيد (complexity, complication, elaboration, involvement, perplexity), شىء معقد (complexity, snarl). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сложност (complexity, complicacy, complication, sinuosity), объркана работа, заплетеност (involution, involvement, sinuosity, tortuousity, twine), лабиринт (labyrinth, maze, meander, plexus, rabbit warren). (various references) | |
Chinese | 复杂 (Complex, Complexities, Complexity, Complicated, Intricacies, intricate, sophisticate, Sophisticating). (various references) | |
Czech | spletitost (complexity), složitost (complexity, complicacy), komplikovanost (complexity, complicatedness, difficulty). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیچیدگی (Clubfoot, Compiexity, Crank, Elaboration, Plexus), تودرتوءی , ریزه کاری (Elegance), بغرنجی (Compiexity, Snarl). (various references) | |
Finnish | monimutkaisuus (complexity, complicated nature). (various references) | |
French | complication (involvement), complexité (the degree to which the elements of a system are interrelated with each other). (various references) | |
German | kompliziertheit (complexity, elaborateness, involvement, trickiness). (various references) | |
Greek | περιπλοκή (complexity, complication, entanglement, imbroglio, involvement, mystification, perplexity, snarl). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מורכבות (complexity), סבוך (complication, confusion, entanglement, implication, shaggy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bonyolultság (complexity, complicacy, complication, difficulty, imbroglio, subtlety). (various references) | |
Italian | groviglio (mat, tangle), complicazione (complication, Nodus, perplexity, tangle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 錯雑 (complication), 錯綜 (complication). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さくそう (complication), さくざつ (complication). (various references) | |
Manx | roagan (clam, escallop, scallop), pohlley (entanglement, warrant), crontys, crampid, camlaagys (crookedness, entanglement, perverseness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intricacyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | embrulhada (embroilment, gallimaufry, imbroglio, involution, moil, muddle, mull, puddle), dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, checkout, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embarrassment, encumbrance, fix, handicap, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hitch, hobble, holdback, impediment, knot, let, matter, mess, need, nicety, nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), complicação (complicacy, difficulty, embroilment, involution, involvement, perplexity, ravel, tangle), complexidade (complicacy, involution). (various references) | |
Romanian | complicaţie (complexity, complicacy, complication, involution, node, perplexity, Ravel), complexitate (complexity, puzzle), caracter complicat, încâlcealã (confusion). (various references) | |
Russian | сложность (bafflement, complexity, complicacy, complication, inextricably, multiplicity, sophistication), запутанность (complexity, complication, embroilment, inextricably). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zamršenost (complicacy). (various references) | |
Spanish | intrincación, lo intrincado, complejidad (complexity). (various references) | |
Turkish | karmakarışıklık (a dickens of a mess, ballup, cock up, confusion worse confounded, mess, mishmash, mixed bag, skein, spaghetti, tangled skein, whirl), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), anlaşılmazlık (incomprehensibility, inscrutability, intangibility, obscurity, opacity, subtility, subtlety, unintelligiblity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | заплутаність (anfractuosity, complexity, complicacy, complication, embarrassment, embroilment, entanglement, involution, perplexity, plexus), плутанина (boggle, confusion, derangement, embroilment, hubbub, hurly burly, involute, jumble, maze, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, skein, snarl, snarl up, tangle, wooliness, woolliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | điều phức tạp (plexus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Intricacy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ethicacy, intracacy, intricasy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "intricacy" (pronounced i"ntrukusē) |
| 5 | -u k u s ē | advocacy, delicacy. |
| 3 | -u s ē | accuracy, adequacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, courtesy, degeneracy, democracy, diplomacy, jealousy, legacy, ecstasy, embassy, fallacy, fantasy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, idiocy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, immediacy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intimacy, legitimacy, leprosy, literacy, lunacy, meritocracy, obstinacy, Odyssey, papacy, pharmacy, piracy, pleurisy, policy, primacy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, supremacy, surrogacy, theocracy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-i-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: cyanitic. | |
-2 letters: actinic. | |
-3 letters: acinic, arctic, cairny, cantic, citric, citrin, critic, cyanic, iatric, nitric. | |
-4 letters: acini, actin, antic, cacti, cairn, canty, carny, circa, cynic, ictic, naric, rainy, riant, ricin, train, triac. | |
-5 letters: airn, airt, airy, anti, arty, ayin, cain, cant, carn, cart, city, cyan, inia, inti, narc, nary, racy, rain, rani, rant, tain, tarn, tiny. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-i-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: circinately. | |
+3 letters: churchianity, conciliatory, inarticulacy, intrapsychic, precipitancy, saccharinity, uncritically. | |
+4 letters: contractility, cybernetician, idiosyncratic, microanalytic. | |
+5 letters: anchoritically, cyberneticians, excruciatingly, nonpsychiatric, reconciliatory. | |
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