elaborate

Speech parts

1. elaborate - Adjective

2. elaborate - Verb

3. elaborate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

detailed expand complicated elaborated enlarge refine expound work out byzantine corinthian rococo baroque polish gordian chichi
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Antonyms

old-fashioned spartan elementary general natural need
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Hypernyms

make change create produce develop alter

Hyponyms

instance develop involve detail specify illustrate

Phrases with the word

elaborate on less elaborate elaborate piano extremely elaborate more elaborate elaborate number

Derivatives

elaborated elaborating

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

el-murr el-tee Ela elaborate able elaborate accessories elaborate amount