Elaborate

[ɪ'læb(ə)rət] or [ɪ'læbəret]

Definition

(verb.) work out in detail; 'elaborate a plan'.

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; 'The bee elaborates honey'.

(adj.) marked by complexity and richness of detail; 'an elaborate lace pattern' .

Checker: Sherman--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

(v. t.) To produce with labor

(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.

Typed by Alphonse

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Bestow labor upon, work out.[2]. Improve, refine, mature, ripen, prepare thoroughly.

a. Labored, studied, high wrought, highly finished, elaborately prepared.

Typed by Freddie

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Execute, forge, prepare, concoct, mature

ANT:Misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue, hit, conjecture, guess, extemporize,chance

Typist: Serena

Definition

v.t. to labour on: to produce with labour: to take pains with: to improve by successive operations.—adj. wrought with labour: done with fullness and exactness: highly finished.—adv. Elab′orately.—ns. Elab′orateness; Elaborā′tion act of elaborating: refinement: the process by which substances are formed in the organs of animals or plants.—adj. Elab′orative.—ns. Elab′orator one who elaborates; Elab′oratory=Laboratory.

Typist: Winfred

Examples

Editor: Marilyn

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