elaborate
adjective
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness.
elaborative
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a word derived from
elaborate.
Example Sentences
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Memory consolidates through a process called elaborative encoding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The remaining essays in the volume are essentially elaborative.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2017
He adds: "Testing itself when you get the correct answers appears to produce a more elaborative memory trace connected with your prior knowledge, so you're building on what you know".
From BBC ● May 18, 2013
A study of adolescents whose mothers were highly elaborative during their preschool years found they had far earlier first memories than those whose mothers weren’t.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2012
But hell itself would not be complete without the button-bore—the man or woman who holds you by a theory, and detains you amid life's intensity to attend the slow circlings of an elaborative brain.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
