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# complex

«complex» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **made of many connected parts and hard to understand or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (complex, more complex, most complex); noun (a complex, complexes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Complex means made of many connected parts and hard to understand or explain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#m1)

2) A complex is a group of buildings used for one purpose, as in «a sports complex». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#m2)

3) A complex is a strong, worried feeling about something, as in «He has a complex about his height». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#m3)

4) (science) A complex is a group of things that work together, like a complex of chemicals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science, complex problems and systems; in everyday life, sports complexes, apartment complexes; in English and psychology, a complex is a worry; phrases: sports complex, complex sentence (grammar: a sentence with a main clause and a subordinate clause).

### examples

- This puzzle is quite complex. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x1)
- The human brain is very complex. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x2)
- We swim at the new leisure complex. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x3)
- A complex sentence has a main clause and a subordinate clause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x4)
- She has a complex about her freckles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x5)
- The rules of the game were too complex for my little brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x6)
- It is evident that the traditions from which the popular conception of the ghostly enemy has been evolved must have been of a complex and even conflicting character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/#x7)

### note

Opposite of «simple». Do not confuse with «complicated» (usually more negative) — both are close. Grammar term: complex sentence. Stress: «COM-plex» or «com-PLEX» for the adjective.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «complex» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/complex/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.