'Elaborate' definitions:
Definition of 'elaborate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern" [syn: elaborate, luxuriant]
adjective
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" [syn: detailed, elaborate, elaborated]
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" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten]
verb
Produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey"
verb
Make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate]
verb
Work out in detail; "elaborate a plan" [syn: elaborate, work out]
Definition of 'Elaborate'
From: GCIDE
- Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. [1913 Webster]
- Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.
- Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Elaborate'
From: GCIDE
- Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
- 1. To produce with labor [1913 Webster]
- They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'elaborate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adorn,
- affected,
- amplify,
- arabesque,
- artificial,
- assemble,
- assiduous,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- Babylonian,
- balled up,
- barbaric,
- baroque,
- beautify,
- build,
- busy,
- Byzantine,
- cast,
- chichi,
- clarify,
- comment,
- complete,
- complex,
- complicated,
- compose,
- compound,
- concoct,
- confounded,
- confused,
- construct,
- convolute,
- convoluted,
- Corinthian,
- crabbed,
- create,
- cultivate,
- daedal,
- decorate,
- decorated,
- deluxe,
- descant,
- detail,
- detailed,
- develop,
- devious,
- devise,
- dilate,
- diligent,
- discuss,
- dressy,
- dwell upon,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- embellish,
- embellished,
- embrangled,
- embroider,
- enlarge,
- enlarge upon,
- enrich,
- entangled,
- enter into detail,
- erect,
- euphuistic,
- evolve,
- expand,
- expatiate,
- explain,
- explicate,
- expound,
- extravagant,
- extrude,
- fabricate,
- fancy,
- fashion,
- festoon,
- fine,
- finish,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flourish,
- flowery,
- form,
- formulate,
- fouled up,
- frame,
- frilly,
- fudge together,
- fussy,
- get up,
- gild,
- glorious,
- go into,
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- gordian,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- high-wrought,
- hyperelegant,
- implicated,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- indite,
- industrious,
- interpret,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involve,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labor,
- labored,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- load with ornament,
- loused up,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- make,
- make up,
- mannered,
- manufacture,
- many-faceted,
- Marinistic,
- matted,
- mature,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mold,
- moresque,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- noble,
- operose,
- ornament,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overcharge,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overlay,
- overload,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- painstaking,
- palatial,
- particularize,
- patch together,
- perfect,
- perplexed,
- picturesque,
- piece together,
- plush,
- polish,
- posh,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- prefabricate,
- prepare,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- princely,
- produce,
- proud,
- put together,
- put up,
- raise,
- ramified,
- rear,
- refine,
- rehearse in extenso,
- relate at large,
- rich,
- ripen,
- ritzy,
- rococo,
- roundabout,
- run up,
- screwed up,
- season,
- sedulous,
- set up,
- shape,
- snarled,
- sophisticated,
- spell out,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- stately,
- studied,
- subtle,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- trick out,
- twisted,
- unfold,
- unnatural,
- varnish,
- whomp up,
- work out,
- write