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elaborate
[ adjective ih-lab-er-it; verb ih-lab-uh-reyt ]
adjective
- worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness:
elaborate preparations; elaborate care.
Synonyms: painstaking
Antonyms: simple
- marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated; ornate.
verb (used with object)
elaborate
/ ɪˈlæbərətɪv /
adjective
- planned or executed with care and exactness; detailed
- marked by complexity, ornateness, or detail
verb
- intr; usually foll by on or upon to add information or detail (to an account); expand (upon)
- tr to work out in detail; develop
- tr to make more complicated or ornate
- tr to produce by careful labour; create
- tr physiol to change (food or simple substances) into more complex substances for use in the body
Derived Forms
- eˈlaborately, adverb
- eˈlaboˌrator, noun
- eˈlaborateness, noun
- eˌlaboˈration, noun
- elaborative, adjective
Other Words From
- e·labo·rate·ly adverb
- e·labo·rate·ness noun
- e·labo·rative adjective
- e·labo·rator noun
- none·labo·rate adjective
- none·labo·rate·ly adverb
- none·labo·rate·ness noun
- none·labo·rating adjective
- none·labo·rative adjective
- quasi-e·labo·rate adjective
- quasi-e·labo·rate·ly adverb
- self-e·labo·rated adjective
- super·e·labo·rate adjective
- super·e·labo·rate·ly adverb
- super·e·labo·rate·ness noun
- une·labo·rate adjective
- une·labo·rate·ly adverb
- une·labo·rate·ness noun
- une·labo·rated adjective
- well-e·labo·rated adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of elaborate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of elaborate1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
This suggests a "hybrid" nature of these death whistle sounds, combining a basic psychoaffective influence on listeners with more elaborate mental processes of sound symbolism, signifying the iconographic nature.
The fluffy dresses and elaborate dances are about romanticizing a dehumanizing view of women, in which they are male property, whose only value is in being a sex object.
Chu has done dazzling movie musical work before, most recently with 2021’s “In the Heights,” but despite the elaborate costume and production design, “Wicked” is his least visually imaginative film.
Head said that he would elaborate further in forthcoming “step by step” videos, but wanted to reassure his friends that he had survived.
She still had refused to accept she was a victim of an elaborate hoax, and had rushed to the police station, hoping that “the police station and officers were real”.
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