intricate
intricately carved pillars made of ancient wood
Morning frost highlights the intricately formed seed heads.
Stonehenge is an intricately planned arrangement of huge stones.
The book is intricately plotted and smartly written.
These details show how intricately slavery was woven into the country's economy.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complexity
advanced
all-singing
baroque
baroquely
be more to something than meets the eyeidiom
fancily
finicky
fractally
high-tech
indirectly
onerousness
ornate
ornately
over-elaborate
over-fussy
tortuously
tortuousness
twisty
ultra-sophisticated
wheels within wheelsidiom

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Detailed and careful

Examples of intricately

intricately
This problem was intricately connected to his dual vision of the world.
The politics and adminsitration of partition prove to have been too intricately intermeshed to be separated neatly into mutually exclusive domains.
All these are intricately woven in ten chapters - introduction, eight substantive chapters and conclusion.
Certainly, some types of memory are intricately linked with consciousness, in particular the episodic memory usually proposed for consolidation.
Assessments of reliance are intricately and indissolubly tied to perceptions of interests and purposes, even more so in a situation of strong political antagonism.
Experiential ageing is a complex process intricately interwoven with the totality of life.
Although intricately linked, the two components are not identical.
This foreign-born elite was highly endogamic and was intricately interconnected through marriage, co-godparenthood and business links.
As was discussed above, these realms are intricately tied to one another.
The relationships formed an intricately patterned fabric woven by different hands at different times.
The terms used in the discussion (ambiguity, opacity, complexity, markedness) are intricately related and the difference between them is not always clear.
My bodiliness, my world and my way of living, are intricately and inseparably interwoven.
In this way, the proximate model is intricately linked with the ultimate model.
With a twist of cynicism it may also be seen as intricately linked to electoral results.
Notably, this assessment is intricately connected to knowledge of correct spelling.
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