intricate (adj.)
- abstruse
- amalgamated
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- amphibious
- anfractuous
- arduous
- baffling
- blended
- brutal
- combined
- complex
- complicated
- composite
- compound
- compounded
- confounded
- confounding
- confused
- confusing
- conglomerate
- convoluted
- crabbed
- critical
- daedal
- dappled
- delicate
- demanding
- devious
- difficult
- disconcerting
- dismaying
- disturbing
- eclectic
- elaborate
- embarrassing
- enigmatic
- entangled
- equivocal
- exacting
- fancy
- fifty-fifty
- formidable
- garbled
- gordian
- hairy
- half-and-half
- hard
- hard-fought
- heterogeneous
- implicated
- indiscriminate
- involved
- ironic
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- laborious
- labyrinthian
- labyrinthine
- many-sided
- matted
- mazy
- mean
- meandering
- mingled
- miscellaneous
- mixed
- motley
- multifaceted
- multifarious
- multinational
- multiracial
- mysterious
- mystifying
- obscure
- operose
- ornate
- patchy
- perplexed
- perplexing
- perturbing
- pluralistic
- problematic
- promiscuous
- puzzling
- rigorous
- rococo
- rough
- roundabout
- rugged
- scrambled
- severe
- sinuous
- snarled
- sophisticated
- spiny
- steep
- strenuous
- subtle
- syncretic
- tangled
- thorny
- ticklish
- toilsome
- tortuous
- tough
- tricky
- twisted
- uphill
- upsetting
- varied
- wicked
- winding