1. elaborate - Adjective
2. elaborate - Verb
3. elaborate - Adjective Satellite
Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
To produce with labor
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. Joseph Priestley
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. J. B. Priestley
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. K. Eric Drexler
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority. Jacques Barzun