Complication noun Plural noun; Complications something that makes something harder to understand, explain, or deal with. Things get hard to hard to understand. Things get hard to explain. Things get hard to deal with. Things like love. Love can be an easy, steady route for example at typical love at first sight situation and everything sails high. Or... Love can be a difficult and bumpy ride when multiple options are available and your heart doesn't know which way to go. Unfortunately for all the cliche-lovers, this ride has it's small potholes and large holes where the simplest of things can be complicated.