Usually means: Complexly detailed and finely arranged.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word intricate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. intricate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. intricate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intricate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intricate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intricate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intricate, intricate: Wordnik
  7. intricate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intricate: Wiktionary
  9. intricate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intricate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intricate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Intricate, intricate: Dictionary.com
  13. intricate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intricate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intricate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intricate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Intricate: Rhymezone
  18. intricate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intricate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intricate: Free Dictionary
  21. intricate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intricate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. intricate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intricate: Legal dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Intricate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See intricately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
adjective:  (archaic) Difficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure.
verb:  (intransitive) To become enmeshed or entangled.
verb:  (transitive) To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.

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