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    e·lab·o·rate
    adjective[əˈlab(ə)rət]
    elaborate (adjective)
    1. involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning:
      "elaborate security precautions" · "elaborate wrought-iron gates"
      • (of an action) lengthy and exaggerated:
        "he made an elaborate pretense of yawning"
    verb[əˈlabəˌrāt]
    elaborate (verb) · elaborates (third person present) · elaborated (past tense) · elaborated (past participle) · elaborating (present participle)
    1. develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in detail:
      "the key idea of the book is expressed in the title and elaborated in the text"
      • add more detail concerning what has already been said:
        "he would not elaborate on his news"
    2. biology
      (of a natural agency) produce (a substance) from its elements or simpler constituents:
      "many amino acid and peptide hormones are elaborated by neural tissue"
    Origin
    late 16th century (in the sense ‘produced by effort of labor’, also in elaborate): from Latin elaborat- ‘worked out’, from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + labor ‘work’.
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    adjective
    1. involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning:
      complicated
      detailed
      intricate
      complex
      involved
      tortuous
      convoluted
      serpentine
      tangled
      knotty
      confusing
      bewildering
      baffling
      painstaking
      careful
      inextricable
      entangled
      impenetrable
      Byzantine
      Daedalian
      involute
      involuted
      ornate
      decorated
      embellished
      adorned
      ornamented
      fancy
      overelaborate
      fussy
      busy
      ostentatious
      extravagant
      showy
      baroque
      rococo
      florid
      wedding-cake
      gingerbread
      flash
      flashy
      Gordian
      Opposite:
      simple
      plain
      verb
      1. develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in detail:
        narrate
        relate
        recount
        tell
        reveal
        disclose
        divulge
        present
        communicate
        report
        recite
        portray
        spell out
        set forth
        set out
        make known
        give an account of
       
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    1. To add details
      to add details in writing, speaking, etc.; give additional or fuller treatment (usually followed by on or upon): to elaborate upon a theme or an idea.

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      Meaning of elaborate in English elaborate adjective us / iˈlæb.ɚ.ət / uk / iˈlæb. ə r.ət / Add to word list C2 containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts:

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      elaborate adjective uk / ɪˈlæb ə rət / us Add to word list complicated, detailed, or made carefully from many parts: an elaborate system / scheme an elaborate design

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      • English (US)

        ELABORATE meaning: 1. containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts: 2. …

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        ELABORATE definicja: 1. containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts: 2. …

      • Elaborate in Russian

        ELABORATE translate: сложный, замысловатый , вдаваться в …

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        ELABORATE translate: 精心计划（或制作）的；详尽的；复杂的, 详尽说明；阐 …

      • Elaborate in Arabic

        ELABORATE translate: مُفَصَّل. Learn more in the Cambridge English-Arabic Dictionary.

       
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