You use intricate to describe something that has many small parts or details. intricate patterns and motifs. simple + intricately in·tri·cate·ly intricately carved sculptures. containing many small parts or details that all work or fit together (past participle of intricare , from tricae )
highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"