Elaborate

Definition: Elaborate

Elaborate

Adjective

1. Marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern".

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".

Verb

1. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation".

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".

4. Work out in detail; "elaborate a plan".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "elaborate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Elaborate

Completion

Verb: effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate.

Exertion

Laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric.

Improvement

Improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.

Preparation

Ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced; (skilled); labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Crosswords: Elaborate

I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.)

A higher body count, more elaborate death scenes, and you can never, ever, assume that the killer is dead (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Well, first I read the sign and then I tried the door in case it was some sort of elaborate ruse (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

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Books

• ÂSråi Caitanya-caritåamòrta of Kòròsònadåasa Kaviråaja Gosvåamåi ; with the original Bengali text, Roman transliteration, English equivalents, translation and elaborate purports (reference)

• ÂSråimad Bhåagavatam : the beautiful narrations of the Supreme Lord ; with the original Sanskrit texts, its roman transliterations, translations, and elaborate Vrajavåasi purports (reference)

• Bhagavad-Gita As It Is: With the Original Sanskrit Text Roman Transliteration English Equivalence Translation and Elaborate Purports (reference)

• Elaborate Selves: Reflections and Reveries of Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Samuel and Evelyn Laeuchli and Marie c (reference)

• Elaborate Traditional Ornamental Iron Gates: Collection 124 (reference)

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This three-story brick mansion was one of many great Georgian mansions built in Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, during the eighteenth century. Begun in 1769 for Samuel Chase, a young lawyer and future signer of the Declaration of Independence, the mansion passed unfinished two years later into the hands of the wealthy plantation owner Edward Lloyd IV. Lloyd hired the renowned English architect and master builder William Buckland to complete the mansion. The elaborate carved details, including the windows, cornices, and doorways, are by Buckland. Credit: Library of Congress.

At Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, circa June-July 1918. Note her elaborate camouflage scheme. Credit: NAVY.

Dressed with flags, 1898. Note this British-built cruiser's elaborate stern decoration, and the civilian rowboat in foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Oriental man in elaborate dress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Albanian woman in elaborate dress, half-length, standing, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress.

Josephine Baker, arms outstretched, surrounded by women wearing elaborate hats, during activities relating to the French Gratitude Train. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington, D.C. Mess hall at Harewood Hospital, heated by elaborate stoves. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hickson W. and Mary Elizabeth Field, three-quarter length portrait of a man seated in a chair beside a woman with elaborate jewelry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tempered to take it. This elaborate machine is an important war worker. It heat treats and tempers gun parts at an eastern armory. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arcade of one of the main building of the Burro Mountain Copper Company at Tyrone, New Mexico. This company constructed the elaborate office and town buildings in addition to extensive company housing. All of these are now vacant after the abandonment of. Credit: Library of Congress.

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On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

He liked to elaborate his masterpieces in the shade, and then to unveil them suddenly afterwards

And they made elaborate acquaintanceship gestures

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Health

If blood is confirmed in the stool, more elaborate tests may be performed to find the source of the bleeding. (references)

Dopamine itself cannot be given because it doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, the elaborate meshwork of fine blood vessels and cells that filters blood reaching the brain. (references)

In addition to diagnostic prudence, elaborate planning and precise understanding of three-dimensional anatomy of the regions of proposed injection are essential for safe administration. (references)

Business

NIST also can provide updated information from the EU and will elaborate on directives and provide assistance in identifying EU and member state standards and regulations. (references)

The Commission concluded that on average new car prices in the U.K. Were 11 percent higher than those in continental Europe and that the automobile manufacturers were abusing their system of captive franchised dealers to operate an elaborate price-fixing cartel. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Elaborate bid proposals often fail, passed over for cheaper, practical alternatives. (references)

Portugal

The need to parallel such progress with more elaborate and complete passenger travel services. (references)

Ireland

The Bronze Age people, who arrived during the next 1,000 years, produced elaborate gold and bronze ornaments and weapons. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

Extended pretrial detention continued to be one of the most serious human rights problems, due in part to the elaborate notification phase in criminal cases. (references)

Korea

Citizens with relatives who fled to South Korea at the time of the Korean War still appear to be classified as part of the "hostile class" in the Government's elaborate loyalty system. (references)

Mexico

On July 18, officials confiscated more than 400 weapons including homemade knives, heroin, cocaine, drug lab paraphernalia, a cellular telephone, and elaborate peso counterfeiting materials during a sweep of the facility. (references)

Political Economy

France

French efforts to elaborate a detailed European plan to stimulate job creation, however, have so far been unsuccessful. (references)

AUSTRIA

Although Austria's economy has become considerably more liberal and open, foreign investors as well as local businesses must still cope with rigidities, barriers to market entry, and an elaborate regulatory environment in some sectors. (references)

Trade

India

Although the items of import are not strictly licensable, because the exporter seeks concessions or exemption of duty, an elaborate, cumbersome export order-wise licensing procedure is prescribed. (references)

Travel

Australia

Bookings for major chains can be made before leaving the U.S. Accommodation ranges from standard rooms to elaborate suites. (references)

Qatar

Instead, they have started hosting large, elaborate parties at one of the five-star hotels in Doha which have international standards. (references)

Bahamas

Dress at church services is usually formal with conservative business suits for men and colorful, sometimes elaborate dresses for women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "elaborate": elaborate on ♦ elaborate on smth. ♦ elaborate upon ♦ in an elaborate way. Additional references.

Ending with "elaborate": over-elaborate.

Albanian

zhvilloj (develop, drive, evolve, expand, grow, hold, increase, navigate, prosecute, wage), shtjelloj imtësisht, prodhoj (bear, deliver, do, fabricate, generate, make, manufacture, mill, produce, yield), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, evolve, mill, process, recondition, refine, rehash, treat, work out), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, expect, fancy, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), i përpunuar (labored, laboured, outgoing, processed, tractable), i përgatitur (made, made up, prepared, versed), i ndërlikuar (chequered, complicated, convoluted, daedal, daedalian, intricate, involute, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tricky, vexing), i menduar mirë (mature, thought-out), i hollësishëm (categorical, circumstantial, comprehensive, detail, detailed, explicit, minute, narrow, particular, play-by-play). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏مفصل (circumstantial, detailed, exhaustive, hinge, in detail, itemized, particular), ‏مدروس (calculated, deliberate, examined, forethought, fully considered, mature, studied, thoughtful, well advised), ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏حضر (assist, attend, bring, call in, civilize, come, fetch, make, prepare, present, report, send around, turn up), ‏عمل (act, action, aggravation, berth, business, deed, employment, engagement, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labor, labour, making, occupation, place, pursuit, racket, see, situation, task, work), ‏دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, exact, express, farina, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, keen, mathematical, meal, nearness, nice, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, sharp, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious), ‏درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, examine, excogitate, go over, instruction, learn, learning, lecture, lesson, period, profess, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, teach, think out, tutor, view). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усложнявам (complicate, involve, perplex, snarl, tangle), сложен (aggregate, complex, complicated, compound, convoluted, daedalian, integrate, intricate, knotty, multiplex, perplexed, perplexing, sinuous, subtle, tangly, tricky), разработвам (amplify, develop, exploit, mature, open, operate, recover, run in, shake down, treat, work out), натруфен (dressy, gingerbread, luxurious, ornate, orotund, tacky, tawdry, twopence colored, twopence coloured), претрупан (exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, gaudy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, ornate, overladen, overwrought, piled, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry), претенциозен (bumptious, choosy, fanciful, fastidious, gingerly, high-toned, overblown, pretentious, showy, squeamish, studied, swanky), подробно изработен, подробен (circumstantial, close, comprehensive, depth, detailed, disquisitional, explicit, narrow, nice, particular), изработвам (dress, frame, make, produce, set up, spin, turn out, work), изпипвам, доразвивам, давам допълнителни подробности. (various references)

Chinese 

闡述 (expound), 精巧 , 精心制作. (various references)

Czech

vybroušený, spletitý (byzantine, complicated, intricate), rozpracovat (develop), propracovaný, precizovat, podrobný (circumstantial, detailed, full, in depth), podrobnì rozpracovaný, podat bližší vysvìtlení, přesnì zhotovený, komplikovaný (complex, complicated, convoluted, intricate, involved, many-sided, sophisticated), dùkladný (close, firm, good, in depth, intimate, painstaking, particular, profound, sound, stout, strong, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing), říci nìco víc. (various references)

Farsi 

استادانه درست شده , دارای جزءیات , به زحمت ساختن , بزحمت درست شده , بادقت شرح دادن . (various references)

Finnish

taidokas (skilful), kehitellä (develop), huoliteltu (carefully finished, neat, well-groomed), huolellinen (careful, neat). (various references)

French

enseigner, elaborer, travailler, raffiner (elutriate), raffiné, donner des détails, distiller, détaillé, compliqué, étudié, élaborer, élaboré. (various references)

German

ausarbeiten (compose, draw up, finish, formulate, hammer out, map, prepare, to work out, work out, work up, write out). (various references)

Greek 

προσεγμένος, περίπλοκοσ (complicated, involved, snarly, tangly), περίτεχνοσ (rococo), περίτεχνος, εκπονώ, επεξεργάζομαι (mill, process, work out), επεξεργασμένοσ, λεπτομερήσ (circumstantial, detailed), λεπτομερής (detailed, minute, thorough). (various references)

Hebrew 

משוכלל (perfect, regular), לשכלל (improve, perfect), לעבד (adapt, arrange, process). (various references)

Hungarian

bonyolult (complex, complicated, difficult, inextricable, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, mazy, problematic, thorny, tricky), megmunkált (processed), körülményes (ceremonious, circumstantial, roundabout), gondosan kidolgozott. (various references)

Indonesian

elaborasikan, rumit (complicated, intricate, knotty), panjang lebar (at great length), mengelaborasi. (various references)

Italian

elaborare (lay, map, process, think out, work out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

精巧 (delicate, exquisite), 克明 (conscientiousness, detailed, diligence, faithfulness), 凝った (artistic, exquisite, refined, tasty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうみつ (detailed, minute), にゅうねん (careful, scrupulous), せいこう (affection, bull's eye, character and conduct, crude, delicate, exquisite, hit, immature, mark, point, sexual intercourse, steel manufacture, success, unpolished, western suburb), こくめい (conscientiousness, country name, detailed, diligence, faithfulness), こうち (arable land, arrest, back-end, cleverness, confinement, craft, cunning, detailed, detention, exquisite, heights, high ground, plateau, skill, slow and elaborate, well-known), こった (artistic, exquisite, refined, tasty), てのこんだ (intricate), ちみつ (accurate, delicate, fine, minute). (various references)

Korean 

정교한 (sophisticated). (various references)

Manx

yl-chast, troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), obbraghey er, myn- (diminutive, exhaustive, filings, lesser, little, minute, niggling, petty, prefix diminutive, trifling). (various references)

Norwegian

utarbeide. (various references)

Pig Latin

elaborateay.(various references)

Portuguese

elaborar (finish, formulate, labor, labour, make, make out, prepare), elaborado (in-depth, labored, laboured), trabalhado (inwrought, labored, laboured, tooled, wrought), complicado (abstract, complex, complicated, crab, crabbed, intricate, knotted, knotty, many-sided, puzzling, tricky). (various references)

Romanian

executat (given), elaborat (belaboured, overwrought, studied), elabora (evolve, frame, hammer out, indite, work), studiat (affected, artificial, deliberate, studied), prelucra (adapt, analyse, analyze, change, discuss, enlighten, machine, operate, pick smb.'s brain, process, recast, remake, study, transform, work, work over), lucrat cu minuţiozitate (deep-laid), complicat (complicated, daedal, deep, difficult, intricate, intricately, obscure, perplex, perplexed, tangled, tricky, turbid), aprofundat (intimate, thorough), amãnunţit (amply, circumstantial, detail, detailed, minute, narrow, particular, particularly, searching, thorough), alcãtui (compile, compose, constitute, construct, create, devise, form, frame, integrate, lay down, organize), întocmit cu grija, întocmi amãnunţit. (various references)

Russian 

усовершенствованный (improved, souped-up), сложный (built-up, complex, complicated, compound, daedal, Daedalian, implex, intricate, involute, multiple, multiplex), разрабатывать сложный, разрабатывать (design, develop, devise, elaborating, exploit, work out, work up), развивать (cultivate, develop, educe, evolve, expand, uncurl), тщательно сделанный, тщательно разработанный, вырабатывать (produce), дополнять (complement, pad, supplement, supplemented, supplementing), детально разработанный, детально разрабатывать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

složen (complex, complicated, composite, compositive, compound, multiplex), razraditi (work out), detaljno izložiti, detaljan (detailed, large, minute). (various references)

Spanish

elaborar (develop, fabricate, hammer out, map, process, think out, throw in, work, work out, work up). (various references)

Swedish

utveckla (develop, evolve, expand, explicate, expound, form, Foster, incubate, procure, unfold), genomarbeta (deal with thoroughly, work through). (various references)

Thai

ทำด้วยความละเอียด, อธิบายเพิ่มเติม, ละเอียด (fine, nice), ซับซ้อน. (various references)

Turkish

dikkatle hazırlanmış, ayrıntılara inmek, ayrıntılı (circumstantial, detailed, diffuse, diffusive, exhaustive, lengthy, minute, particular), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), üzerinde durmak (accent, accentuate, discourse, dwell on, emphasize, give point to, harp on, harp upon, insist, lay stress on, lay stress upon, niggle, play to), özenli (assiduous, attentive, careful, heedful, jealous, painstaking, regardful, scrupulous, thoughtful), özen göstermek (care, cross one's t's, fuss, make a point of, nurse, take care, take care of, take pains). (various references)

Ukrainian

удосконалений (improved, refined), складний (complex, complicated, composite, compound, decomposite, intricate, involute, involved, jointed, mazy, multiplex, operose, profound, tangled, tickle, tricky), розвивати (amplify, cultivate, evolve, explicate, nurse), ретельний (affectionate, assiduous, careful, diligent, dutiful, meticulous, narrow, nice, observant, prompt, rigorous, severe, thorough), детально розробляти, детально розроблений. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh vi (elaborately, nice, sophisticated, subtle), phức tạp tỉ mỉ, kỹ lưỡng (close, elaborately, minutely, over, scrutinizingly, searching, thorough), công phu; trau chuốt (elaborately). (various references)

Welsh

llafurfawr. (various references)

adparatum, adparatus, curiosa, curiosae, curiose, curiosius, curiosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "elaborate": elaborated, elaborately, elaborateness, elaboratenesses, elaborates. (additional references)

Words ending with "elaborate": overelaborate, unelaborate. (additional references)

Words containing "elaborate": overelaborated, overelaborates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Elaborate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elabarate, elaberate, elaborite, elabourate, elabrate, eleborate, ellaborate, lavorato, metaborate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: areolate, rateable, tearable.

-2 letters: areolae, bleater, bloater, earlobe, eatable, ratable, retable.

-3 letters: abater, abator, ablate, aboral, aerate, aerobe, aortae, aortal, arable, areola, areole, beater, belter, berate, boatel, boater, bolete, bolter, borate, boreal, elater, labret, lobate, oblate, oleate, rabato, rebate, rebato, relate, treble.

-4 letters: abate, abele, abler, abort, alate, alert, altar, alter, aorta, areae, areal.

+1 letter: elaborated, elaborates.

+2 letters: elaborately, elaborative, relocatable, treasonable, unelaborate.

+3 letters: correlatable, forecastable.

+4 letters: decarboxylate, elaborateness, overelaborate.

+5 letters: counterbalance, decarboxylated, decarboxylates, overelaborated, overelaborates.