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/ɪlˈæbrət/ /ɪlˈæbərˌeɪt/ Listen

adjective

Elaborate adj. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. "Drawn to the life in each elaborate page."

Synonyms: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.

verb

Elaborate v. t. (past & past part. elaborated; pres. part. elaborating)

To produce with labor "They in full joy elaborate a sigh,"

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. "The sap is... still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant."

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Etymology of 'Elaborate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Elaborate" Quotes from Famous Books

... satire," was acted in 1600, and, as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything, and while much of the caricature is admirable, especially in the detail of witty and trenchantly satirical ...

— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson

... most fundamental of our national ideals,—the ideal of popular government. And not only that, but they were studying popular government in its simplest form, uncomplicated by the innumerable details and the elaborate organizations ...

— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

... an articled pupil, he knew quite enough about railway engineering to be perfectly well aware that the elaborate measurements which Butler had instructed him to take were absolutely unnecessary, the accurate determination of the width at the top—where a bridge would eventually have to be thrown across—being all that was really ...

— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood

... elaborate meekness proper to his supposed low station he answered, "You leave me no choice, my lord. To resist your will would be suicide, and that is ...

— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey

... confusedly; "I know him very well indeed," and then she was choked to silence by Von Ibn, who turned and gave her a carefully cold look of complete unrecognition. It was too elaborate to be genuine, but it made her feel sick all over; for where other women had brains or souls, Rosina had a heart, and again a heart, and yet once more a heart. And that heart was not only the mainspring of her physical life, but it was also the source of all her ...

— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner

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