elaborate
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elaborate
▶adjective /ɪˈlab(ə)rət/ involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated. ▶verb /ɪˈlabəreɪt/
- 1 develop or present in further detail.
■ (often elaborate on) add more detail to something already said.
- 2 Biology (of a natural agency) produce (a substance) from its elements or simpler constituents.
– derivatives
elaborately adverb,
elaborateness noun,
elaboration noun,
elaborative adjective,
elaborator noun.
elaborately adverb,
elaborateness noun,
elaboration noun,
elaborative adjective,
elaborator noun.
– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as elaboration): from L. elaborat-, elaborare ‘work out’.
'elaborate' also found in these Oxford entries:
array
- banquet
- bowerbird
- brolga
- Brussels lace
- chichi
- coloratura
- conceit
- confect
- confection
- crinkum-crankum
- dandified
- dog
- Dresden china
- euphuism
- extravaganza
- fancy
- fandango
- finicky
- flowery
- formal
- Freemason
- get
- get-up
- Godwottery
- hearse
- intarsia
- lavish
- madrigal
- magnificent
- Ming
- mustachios
- nancy story
- nine
- over-elaborate
- overproduce
- overwrought
- pageant
- pageantry
- performance
- perpendicular
- pibroch
- plain
- pouf
- rete
- ricercar
- richly
- rocaille
- rubricate
