complicating
複雑化する
解説 Definition
complicating は complicate（複雑にする、複雑化させる）の動名詞・現在分詞です。問題や状況を分かりにくくしたり、処理しにくくしたりすることを表します。
Complicating is the present participle or gerund of complicate. It describes an action or factor that is making a situation, decision, or process more difficult to understand, manage, or complete.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
complicating は complicate の現在分詞・動名詞で、語末の e を落として -ing を付けます。発音は /ˈkɑːmpləkeɪtɪŋ/ など。com-「共に」と「折る」に由来する要素から、事情が折り重なって扱いにくくなる像を作り、complicating the process/decision と覚えます。
Complicating comes from complicate: drop the final silent e and add -ing. It can form a progressive verb, as in Rain is complicating the rescue, or act as a participle describing a factor that creates difficulty. The word’s historical parts suggest things being folded together, a useful image for details becoming tangled and hard to manage. Learn it with common objects such as complicating the process, complicating the decision, and complicating matters. Unlike confusing, it often emphasizes added practical difficulty, not only a lack of understanding.
例文
The new rule is complicating the simple process.
新しい規則が、その簡単な手続きを複雑にしています。
Heavy rain was complicating the rescue work.
大雨が救助作業を複雑にしていました。
Several small errors are complicating the final decision.
いくつかの小さな誤りが最終判断を難しくしています。
complicating の類義語・関連語
complicating の語源・成り立ち Etymology
complicatingはcomplicateの進行形で、語源はラテン語complicareです。com-「共に」+ plicare「折りたたむ」で、「一緒に折り重ねる」から「物事を入り組ませて複雑化する」意味になりました。関連語はimplicate、replicateで、折り畳む感覚を思うと納得しやすいです。
Complicating is formed from complicate by dropping the final e and adding -ing. Complicate comes from Latin complicare, composed of com-, “together,” and plicare, “to fold.” Something complicated was therefore imagined as folded or intertwined with other things. English extended this physical image to situations containing connected difficulties. The same Latin folding root appears, with different prefixes and developments, in words such as implicate and replicate.
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