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Elaborate

Elaborate Meaning & Definition
Elaborate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elaborate?

[adj] developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme"
[adj] marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
[v] work out in detail; "elaborate a plan"
[v] make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
[v] add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
[v] produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elaborate: careful | complicate | detailed | dilate | elaborated | enlarge | expand | expatiate | exposit | expound | fancy | flesh out | lucubrate | luxuriant | rarify | refine | work out

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See Also | alter | change | clarify | clear up | create | detail | develop | elucidate | exemplify | illustrate | instance | involve | make | make grow | particularise | particularize | produce | set forth | sophisticate | specialise | specialize | specify

Elaborate In Webster's Dictionary

\E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See {Labor}.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller. Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n.
\E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot.

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