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overelaborate
[ adjective oh-ver-i-lab-er-it; verb oh-ver-i-lab-uh-reyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to render or present with excessive or fussy detail:
He so overelaborates his jokes that they lose their humor.
verb (used without object)
- to add excessive details, as in writing or speaking:
He overelaborates to an extent that his novels must be cut radically before being published.
overelaborate
adjective
- excessively ornate, detailed, or complex
verb
- tr to detail or develop (an idea, plan, etc) excessively
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Derived Forms
- ˌovereˌlaboˈration, noun
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Other Words From
- over·e·labo·rate·ly adverb
- over·e·labo·ration over·e·labo·rate·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of overelaborate1
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Example Sentences
"I see," said I—for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.
It ought not to look overelaborate, even though it is spangled with silver or crystal or is made of sheer lace.
It was a Cosway; but a Cosway broadened and without a hint of genteel namby-pamby or overelaborate finesse.
It is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations.
We had had two meals, one of which was as totally unnecessary as the other was overelaborate.
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