elaborate
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care.
marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated; ornate.
to work out carefully or minutely; develop to perfection.
to add details to; expand.
to produce or develop by labor.
Physiology. to convert (food, plasma, etc.) by means of chemical processes into a substance more suitable for use within the body.
to add details in writing, speaking, etc.; give additional or fuller treatment (usually followed by on or upon): to elaborate upon a theme or an idea.
Origin of elaborate
1synonym study For elaborate
Other words for elaborate
1 | perfected, painstaking |
3 | refine, improve |
7 | refine, improve |
Opposites for elaborate
Other words from elaborate
- e·lab·o·rate·ly, adverb
- e·lab·o·rate·ness, noun
- e·lab·o·ra·tive, adjective
- e·lab·o·ra·tor, noun
- non·e·lab·o·rate, adjective
- non·e·lab·o·rate·ly, adverb
- non·e·lab·o·rate·ness, noun
- non·e·lab·o·rat·ing, adjective
- non·e·lab·o·ra·tive, adjective
- qua·si-e·lab·o·rate, adjective
- qua·si-e·lab·o·rate·ly, adverb
- self-e·lab·o·rat·ed, adjective
- su·per·e·lab·o·rate, adjective
- su·per·e·lab·o·rate·ly, adverb
- su·per·e·lab·o·rate·ness, noun
- un·e·lab·o·rate, adjective
- un·e·lab·o·rate·ly, adverb
- un·e·lab·o·rate·ness, noun
- un·e·lab·o·rat·ed, adjective
- well-e·lab·o·rat·ed, adjective
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How to use elaborate in a sentence
Their own histories would be closely inquired into; the well-elaborated scheme might end in failure after all.
A Desperate Voyage | Edward Frederick KnightA month passed in concluding the details of this well-elaborated plan.
The History of Cuba, vol. 2 | Willis Fletcher Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for elaborate
planned or executed with care and exactness; detailed
marked by complexity, ornateness, or detail
(intr; usually foll by on or upon) to add information or detail (to an account); expand (upon)
(tr) to work out in detail; develop
(tr) to make more complicated or ornate
(tr) to produce by careful labour; create
(tr) physiol to change (food or simple substances) into more complex substances for use in the body
Origin of elaborate
1Derived forms of elaborate
- elaborately, adverb
- elaborateness, noun
- elaboration, noun
- elaborative (ɪˈlæbərətɪv), adjective
- elaborator, noun
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