complexly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *pel-

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.

Proto-Italic *plektōder.

Latin plectō

Latin complector

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin complexuslbor.

French complexebor.

English complex

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English complexly

From complex + -ly.

Adverb

complexly (comparative more complexly, superlative most complexly)

1. In a complex manner.

   Antonym: simply

   • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

     It’s not that Lynch is somehow “above” being manipulative; it’s more like he’s just not interested. Lynch’s movies are about images and stories in his head that he wants to see made external and complexly real.

2. (mathematics) Involving complex numbers.