intricate
/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/ adjectif C1En français : intriqué, compliqué, tortueux
- Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity. · The architecture of this clock is very intricate.
Dans la bibliothèque
Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace.
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
It does not necessarily follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.”
“Yes; but intricate characters are the _most_ amusing.
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