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Elaborate
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Elaborate: adorn | affected | amplify | arabesque | artificial | assemble | assiduous | awe-inspiring | awful | Babylonian | balled up | barbaric | baroque | beautify | build | busy | Byzantine | cast | chichi | clarify | comment | complete | complex | complicated | compose | compound | concoct | confounded | confused | construct | convolute | convoluted | Corinthian | crabbed | create | cultivate | daedal | decorate | decorated | deluxe | descant | detail | detailed | develop | devious | devise | dilate | diligent | discuss | dressy | dwell upon | elaborated | elegant | embellish | embellished | embrangled | embroider | enlarge | enlarge upon | enrich | entangled | enter into detail | erect | euphuistic | evolve | expand | expatiate | explain | explicate | expound | extravagant | extrude | fabricate | fancy | fashion | festoon | fine | finish | flamboyant | florid | flourish | flowery | form | formulate | fouled up | frame | frilly | fudge together | fussy | get up | gild | glorious | go into | Gongoresque | Gongoristic | gordian | grand | grandiose | high-wrought | hyperelegant | implicated | imposing | impressive | indite | industrious | interpret | intricate | involuted | involve | involved | knotted | knotty | labor | labored | labyrinthian | labyrinthine | load with ornament | loused up | luxuriant | luxurious | magnificent | majestic | make | make up | mannered | manufacture | many-faceted | Marinistic | matted | mature | mazy | meandering | messed up | mixed up | mold | moresque | mucked up | multifarious | noble | operose | ornament | ornate | ostentatious | overcharge | overdone | overelaborate | overelegant | overlabored | overlay | overload | overnice | overrefined | overworked | overwrought | painstaking | palatial | particularize | patch together | perfect | perplexed | picturesque | piece together | plush | polish | posh | precieuse | precieux | precious | prefabricate | prepare | pretentious | pretty-pretty | princely | produce | proud | put together | put up | raise | ramified | rear | refine | rehearse in extenso | relate at large | rich | ripen | ritzy | rococo | roundabout | run up | screwed up | season | sedulous | set up | shape | snarled | sophisticated | spell out | splendacious | splendid | splendiferous | stately | studied | subtle | sumptuous | superb | superfancy | superfine | swank | swanky | swell | tangled | tangly | thorough | thoroughgoing | trick out | twisted | unfold | unnatural | varnish | whomp up | work out | write 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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