1. complicated
Modern finance is becoming increasingly complicated and sophisticated.
I have a complicated matter I want to discuss with you.
This form looks kind of complicated. Help me fill it out.
Math is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated.
Things became complicated
In order to be easily understood, a sentence should not be unnecessarily complicated.
Lately the discount airline ticket system has gotten so complicated that there's a lot about it I can't figure out.
Frustrated with the European languages, which he considered "too boring", Christopher Columbus invented "Columbian", a language so complicated that only he could speak it.
To this extent, it has the characteristics of a great complicated balance between plant life and lower forms of animal life.
And though a web looks complicated, it takes a spider little time to make one and catch insects.
The subject is complicated and needs to be looked into further.
Making our environment better to live in shouldn’t need complicated plans. It’s so simple.
I can’t give a simple answer because the situation is very complicated.
Dogs can be trained to do complicated things like assist a person around town or find hidden objects.
Asked about her job, she said, "My job is too complicated to sum up in a word."
2. complex
This complex situation arose because signals from the environment itself can be inadequate.
How complex?
There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex.
Those four words carried not only a lot of complex information, but also the persuasive force of a proverb.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
All of his friends were body pillows, and all of hers were dolls; so they bonded over their fondness for animating the inanimate. However, because they were not inanimate objects but people with complex emotions, their relationship was sometimes strained.
This might lead us to believe that a simple culture would make use of a simple language, that a complex culture would make use of a complex language, and so on.
Courses in analysis begin with the fundamental notions of mathematical logic, important proof techniques, and the construction of real and complex numbers.
When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture.
These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood.
The real, biological nervous system is highly complex and includes some features that may seem superfluous based on an understanding of artificial networks.
Plant growth and productivity react sharply to a complex combination of temperature and moisture.
No single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point.
This problem is quite complex, you have to help me. (Ten problem jest dość złożony, musisz mi pomóc.) She solved a very complex mathematical equation. (Ona rozwiązała bardzo skomplikowane matematyczne równanie.)
But as civilizations grew more complex, better methods of communication were needed.