Elaborate

Adjective

 * 1) Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated
 * After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.
 * 1) intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy
 * I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.

Verb

 * 1)  (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).
 * What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?
 * Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

Adverbs for Elaborate
minutely; successfully; eloquently; ingeniously; ridiculously; pompously; ramblingly; fully.

Adverbs for Elaborate
extremely; excessively; unnecessarily; arduously; egregiously; incredibly; ostentatiously; ingeniously; skilfully; intolerably; preposterously; fearfully; unduly; inappropriately; suitably; ceremoniously; oddly; singularly; significantly; pompously; laboriously; marvellously; beautifully.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
1575, from elaboratus:, past participle of elaboro:, from e-: + labor:. More at,.

Pronunciation

 * Adjective: ĭlă'bərət,, /I"l{b@r@t/
 * Verb: ĭlă'bərāt,, /I"l{b@reIt/
 * Verb: ĭlă'bərāt,, /I"l{b@reIt/

Adjective

 * Danish: detaljeret
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ausführlich, durchdacht
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Icelandic: ítarlegur, ítarleg , ítarlegt
 * Manx: yl-chast
 * Polish:
 * Russian: тщательно сделанный
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * : elaborato, elaborata
 * : elaborado, elaborada

Verb

 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish: käsitellä yksityiskohtaisemmin, kommentoida tarkemmin
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: конкретизировать, вдаваться подробности
 * Spanish: elaborar
 * Swedish: elaborera

Verb
elaborate