overelaborate
adjective
excessively or fussily elaborate, ornate, detailed, etc.
overelaboration
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a word derived from
overelaborate.
Example Sentences
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Of the numerous attempts to reproduce the overelaboration of rhyme to which Irish verse has ever been prone, Father Prout's Bells of Shandon is perhaps the only one that is at all widely known.
From The Glories of Ireland by P. J. Lennox
Some of these are very beautiful, though there is a tendency to overelaboration.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
