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Elaborate   /ɪlˈæbrət/  /ɪlˈæbərˌeɪt/   Listen
Elaborate

adjective
1.
Marked by complexity and richness of detail.  Synonym: luxuriant.
2.
Developed or executed with care and in minute detail.  Synonyms: detailed, elaborated.  "The elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion" , "The carefully elaborated theme"
verb
(past & past part. elaborated; pres. part. elaborating)
1.
Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.  Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate.  Antonym: contract.
2.
Produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product.
3.
Make more complex, intricate, or richer.  Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine.
4.
Work out in detail.  Synonym: work out.



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"Elaborate" Quotes from Famous Books



... post became a thing of life. Boom of cannon, firing of rifles, and skirling of bagpipes welcomed the long cavalcade. The captain of the brigade as he entered the fort usually wore a high and pompous beaver hat, a velvet cloak lined with red silk, and knee-breeches with elaborate Spanish embossed-leather leggings. All this show was, of course, for the purpose of impressing the Indians. Whether impressed or not, the Indians always counted the days to the wild riot of feasting and boat-races and dog-races and horse-races that ...
— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut
... Crayford had been right. The opera was ready for production and was "going" without a hitch. The elaborate scenic effects were working perfectly. Miss Mardon had never been more admirable, more completely mistress of her art. Nor had she ever looked more wonderful. Alston Lake's success was assured. His voice filled the great house without difficulty. Even Charmian ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... absurd everything's absurd, or, rather, has in it some degree or aspect of absurdity, and we've never had experience with any state except something somewhere between ultimate absurdity and final reasonableness. Our acceptance is that Dr. Bedding's elaborate explanation does not apply to cut-stone objects found in tree trunks in other lands: we accept that for the general, a ...
— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort
... Mrs. Danvers and Laura and Vi in a large room as pretty and comfortable as the room downstairs, though not quite so elaborate. Laura and Vi were busily engaged in making ...
— Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island - The Mystery of the Wreck • Janet D. Wheeler
... excited as Rosemary and before an hour had passed the two girls had, in imagination, knit four elaborate spreads and disposed of them for eighty ...
— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence


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