rate, intricate, labyrinthine, Byzantine. See complex (defs. 1, 2).
2. difficult, deep, profound, abstruse, recondite; obscure, indistinct, hidden, enigmatic, mysterious; incomprehensible, unclear, bewildering, paradoxical, ambiguous, unintelligible; involved, exacting, formidable, laborious, toilsome, operose; tangled, raveled, knotty, thorny, troublesome, problematic, beset with difficulties, perplexing, puzzling. complication, n. complexity, intricacy; difficulty, entanglement. See complexity (defs. 1, 2). complicity, n. 1. conspiracy, collusion, collusiveness, confederacy, complot; connivance, machination, intrigue; cabal, association, partnership, combination, alliance; collaboration, concurrence, abetment.
2. complexity, intricacy; complication, entanglement. See complexity (defs. 1, 2). compliment, n. 1. praise, tribute, homage, honor, commendation, laudation, celebration, exaltation, ex-tolment, glorification, adulation; eulogy, encomium, panegyric, good word, blurb; flattery, trumpetry, puffery, crying up, singing [s.o.'s] praises, praising to excess, overpraise, Inf. overdoing it, Inf. laying it on thick.
2. compliments good wishes, regards, respects; salute, salutation, greeting.
-v. 3. praise, honor, salute, pay tribute or homage to, acclaim, laud, celebrate, exalt, extol, glorify, adulate; eulogize, panegyrize; commend, hand it to [s.o.]; flatter, puff, gratify, overpraise, praise to excess or to the skies, cry up, sing [s.o.'s] praises, Inf. slather, Inf. stroke, Inf. overdo it, Inf. lay or spread it on thick, Inf. pile it up or on.
4. favor, show regard for, pay regard to, do honor to; do a good turn, render a benefit, do [s.o.] a favor.
5. congratulate, felicitate, tender or offer one's congratulations or compliments; rejoice with, wish one well, wish one joy. complimentary, adj. 1. commendatory, laudatory, celebratory, acclamatory, adulatory; eulogistic, encomiastic, panegyrical; flattering, cajoling, wheedling, ingratiating, timeserving, SI. bootlicking, Inf. apple-polishing, SI. brown-nosing, Obs. blandering, Obs., Rare, blandiloquous; unctuous, oily, buttery, candied.
2. free, free of charge, for free, for nothing, gratis, on the house, for love; free for the asking, free as the air, no strings attached. complot, n. 1. conspiracy, collusion; cabal, junto, camarilla, clique, secret society.
-v. 2. collude, connive, conspire, plot, hatch a plot, cabal, scheme; maneuver, machinate, engineer; (all in criminal activity) collaborate, cooperate, unite, join, join forces or hands, band together, Inf. hitch horses. comply, v. (usu. fol. by with) 1. observe, obey, acknowledge, respect; adhere to, abide by, conform to; acquiesce in, submit to, consent to, agree to, concur, grant, accept; be faithful to, be regulated by, be subject to.
2. agree with, accord with, harmonize with, tally with, correspond, chime or fall in with; accommodate, adapt, adjust, suit, fit.
3. surrender, relent, give in, give way to, succumb; stoop, bend, bow, truckle to, knuckle under, do [s.o.'s] bidding.
4. perform, discharge, execute, carry out, carry into effect, come across with; meet, satisfy, fulfill, complete. component, adj. 1. constituent, composing, constituting, integral, integrant, forming; fragmentary, complementary, sectional, fractional, partial; elemen-