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
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
The Maori in New Zealand have the earliest average first memory of any culture—2½ years of age—and talk to their children in a highly elaborative way about their shared past.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2012
“Kids who grow up in homes where you talk about the past all the time, in these more elaborative ways, grow up with better memories.”
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
