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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
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The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
--Arbuthnot.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elaborate
adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate
lace pattern" [syn: luxuriant]
2: 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, elaborated]
v 1: 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: lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh
out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abridge]
2: produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more
developed product; "The bee elaborates honey"
3: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or
pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify]
4: work out in detail; "elaborate a plan" [syn: work out]
WordNet (r) 2.0
222 Moby Thesaurus words for "elaborate":
Babylonian, Byzantine, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Gongoristic,
Marinistic, adorn, affected, amplify, arabesque, artificial,
assemble, assiduous, awe-inspiring, awful, balled up, barbaric,
baroque, beautify, build, busy, cast, chichi, clarify, comment,
complete, complex, complicated, compose, compound, concoct,
confounded, confused, construct, convolute, convoluted, 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,
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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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