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Elaborate

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 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 \Elab"orate\, 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. -- {Elab"orately}, adv. -- {Elab"orateness}, n. \Elab"orate\, 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.

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"

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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