Complex vs. Involved — What's the Difference?

Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite

Complicated; intricate

Composed of two or more units

Connected by participation or association

Difficult to understand for being intricate or involved; complicated

On fire; burning

Consisting of at least one bound form. Used of a word.

Emotionally committed

Consisting of an independent clause and at least one other independent or dependent clause. Used of a sentence.

Having a sexual relationship

A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts

Curled inward; coiled or involute.

A building or group of buildings used for a single purpose

Complicated.

In psychoanalysis, a group of related, often repressed ideas and impulses that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.

Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)

An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear

Having an affair with someone.

(Medicine) The combination of factors, symptoms, or signs of a disease or disorder that forms a syndrome.

Simple past tense and past participle of involve

Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

Same as Involute.

Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.

Connected by participation or association or use;

Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.

Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire;

Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

Emotionally involved

Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.

Highly involved or intricate;

(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

Enveloped;

A problem. en

A network of interconnected systems.

A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.

An assemblage of related things; a collection.

An organized cluster of thunderstorms.

A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.

(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.

(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.

A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.

(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.

(math) A complex number.

(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.

To form a complex with another substance

(transitive) To complicate.

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;

A compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts;