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overcomplicating

overcomplicating is the present participle and gerund of overcomplicate.

Meaning of overcomplicate

Verb

overcomplicate (third-person singular simple present overcomplicates, present participle overcomplicating, simple past and past participle overcomplicated)

  1. (transitive) To make something excessively complicated.

Questions about overcomplicating

What is overcomplicating the present participle and gerund of?
Overcomplicating is the present participle and gerund of overcomplicate.

Words near overcomplicating in the dictionary

  1. overcomplicate
  2. overcomplicated
  3. overcomplicatedly
  4. overcomplicatedness
  5. overcomplicates
  6. overcomplicating
  7. overcomplication
  8. overcomplications
  9. overcomplicator
  10. overcomplicators
  11. overcompliment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcomplicating (page history and authors); overcomplicate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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