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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, adjective [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.
Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.
Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adverb -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elaborate
adjective
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}]
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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