intricable

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adjective

Intricate, entangled.

OriginMiddle French intrincable ← Latin intrīcō →
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Meanings

adjectiveintricable (comparative more intricable, superlative most intricable)

comparative more intricable · superlative most intricable

  1. obsoleteIntricate, entangled.

    A labyrinth of intricable questions, unprofitable contentions, incredibilem delirationem, one calls it.

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 110

Origin

  1. Latinintrīcō“to entangle”
  2. Middle Frenchintrincable
  3. Englishintricable

From Middle French intrincable, from Latin intrīcō (“to entangle”).

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