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UK
/ˈɪntɹɪkət/
]
[ US /ˈɪntɹəkət/ ]
[ US /ˈɪntɹəkət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
intricate lacework
How To Use intricate In A Sentence
- Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
- Also, they were bound with several bands of intricately carved bronze.
- The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
- Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses.
- From plain backgrounds at the start, they moved on to intricate landscapes - landscapes now completely disassociated from the Impressionism that first reigned at Coyoacan. Printmaking - From Revolution To Establishment
- The intricate, filigree footwork - very occasionally embellished with a few ballet steps such as an entrechat - is, on its own terms, both fascinating and exciting.
- You might have noticed by now that the keywords Mr. McWhorter has chosen to mark "language-ness" spell out the word "idiom"—which is apt, in that idioms are the parts of language that are the most ingrown, disheveled, intricate, oral and mixed. Strange and Twisted Tongues
- Even more seriously, this is a play full of the most intricate, knotty, compacted language.
- Through an intricate series of hand gestures and melodic whistles, she quickly garnered its trust and shepherded it into our gated, side yard.
- Some are quite basic, mere saucer-like indentations, but others are exquisitely engineered with intricate pivots and fulcrums unravelling to form a protruding secure holder.