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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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... post became a thing of life. Boom of cannon, firing of rifles, and skirling of bagpipes welcomed the long cavalcade. The captain of the brigade as he entered the fort usually wore a high and pompous beaver hat, a velvet cloak lined with red silk, and knee-breeches with elaborate Spanish embossed-leather leggings. All this show was, of course, for the purpose of impressing the Indians. Whether impressed or not, the Indians always counted the days to the wild riot of feasting and boat-races and dog-races and horse-races that ...

— Pioneers of the Pacific Coast - A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters • Agnes C. Laut

... Crayford had been right. The opera was ready for production and was "going" without a hitch. The elaborate scenic effects were working perfectly. Miss Mardon had never been more admirable, more completely mistress of her art. Nor had she ever looked more wonderful. Alston Lake's success was assured. His voice filled the great house without difficulty. Even Charmian ...

— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens

... absurd everything's absurd, or, rather, has in it some degree or aspect of absurdity, and we've never had experience with any state except something somewhere between ultimate absurdity and final reasonableness. Our acceptance is that Dr. Bedding's elaborate explanation does not apply to cut-stone objects found in tree trunks in other lands: we accept that for the general, a ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

... Mrs. Danvers and Laura and Vi in a large room as pretty and comfortable as the room downstairs, though not quite so elaborate. Laura and Vi were busily engaged in making ...

— Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island - The Mystery of the Wreck • Janet D. Wheeler

... excited as Rosemary and before an hour had passed the two girls had, in imagination, knit four elaborate spreads and disposed of them for eighty ...

— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

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