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decomplex en · ADJ

Etymology

From de- + complex (with de- as intensifier).

Meanings

  1. Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
    • For an expert performer will play from notes, or ideas laid up in memory, or from the connexion of the several complex parts of the decomplex motions, some or all; and, at the same time, carry on a quite different train of thoughts in his mind, or even hold a conversation with another. 1999, Richard Allen, David Hartley on Human Nature, page 169:
    • The decomplex nature of English poor relief resulted from the interplay between two factors: the growth of government at both the central and local level and the evolution of the churchwarden as a parish officer whose brief also included the relief of the poor. 2004, Lynn A. Botelho, Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700, page 19:
    • And it happeens in most cases, that the decomplex idea belonging to any sentence, is not compounded merely to the complex ideas belonging to the words of it; but that there are also many variations, some oppositions, and numberless additions. 1809, William Nicholson, The British Encyclopedia - Volume 5:

Forms

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most decomplex Degree=Sup lexicographic
more decomplex Degree=Cmp lexicographic

decomplex en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + complex (with de- as intensifier).

Meanings

  1. To cause, or to undergo decomplexation

Forms

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decomplexes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
decomplexing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
decomplexed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
decomplexed Tense=Past lexicographic