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adj. Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details.

adj. Intricate and rich in detail.

v. To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly.

v. To produce by effort; create.

verb-intransitive. To become elaborate.

verb-intransitive. To express at greater length or in greater detail: asked me to elaborate on my proposal.

adj. Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated

adj. intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy

v. (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).

adj. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking

v. To produce with labor.

v. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations.

To produce with labor; work out; produce in general.

Specifically To improve or refine by successive operations; work out with great care; work up fully or perfectly.

To be or become elaborate; be elaborated.

Wrought with labor; finished with great care and nicety of detail; much studied; executed with exactness; highly finished: as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance.

Synonyms Labored, perfected, highly wrought.

v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

v. work out in detail

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail

v. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

adj. developed or executed with care and in minute detail

v. make more complex, intricate, or richer

"Editors at "USA Today" say one of their former reporters engaged in what they call elaborate deception in a story claiming the Serb military ordered ethnic cleansing in Kosovo."

fancy    careful   

simple    elementary   

elaborated    elaborates    elaborating   

develop    make grow    create    make    produce   

elaborated    elaborating   

studied    high-wrought    labored    perfected    complicated    operose    detailed    curious    dressy    work out   

collaborate   

intricate    formal    splendid    admirable    costly    ornate    above    quaint    superb    lengthy