elaborate

1. a. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Source: opted

2. v. t. To produce with labor Source: opted

3. v. t. 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. Source: opted

4. adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail Source: wordnet

5. adj. developed or executed with care and in minute detail Source: wordnet

6. v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing Source: wordnet

7. v. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product Source: wordnet

8. v. make more complex, intricate, or richer Source: wordnet

9. v. work out in detail Source: wordnet

10. 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. Waller. Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- E*lab"o*rate*ly, adv. -- E*lab"o*rate*ness, n. 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young. 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. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot. Source: webster

11. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executedwith exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; anelaborate performance; elaborate research.Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller. Source: adambom

12. j:65/v:35 v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing v. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product v. work out in detail s. marked by complexity and richness of detail Source: ecdict

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