Use the adjective elaborate when you want to describe how something is very detailed or especially complicated, like a devilish prank planned out weeks in advance.
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking;
Verb
work out in detail; "elaborate a plan"
Verb
make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
Verb
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Verb
produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey"
Adjective S.
developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme"
Adjective S.
marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
a.
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an
elaborate performance; elaborate research.
v. t.
To produce with labor
v. t.
To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine
with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a
painting or a literary work.
Elaborate
Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.
Elaborate
They in full joy elaborate a sigh,2.
The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking;
To produce with labor
Usage Examples
What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
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