See Also: Elaborate(medicine)
elaborate(1)(dictionary)
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elaborate 1, adjective(dictionary)
elaborate 2, verb(dictionary)

elaborate(1) (iou)



elaborate adjective. L16.
[Latin elaboratus pa. pple of elaborare: see ELABORATE verb, -ATE2.]
Produced by labour. L16-E19.
S. Johnson He has no elegances either lucky or elaborate.
Worked out or accomplished in great detail; full of detail, intricate, complicated; minutely careful, painstaking. E17.
J. Morley He read Shakespeare, and made an elaborate study of his method. S. Lewis The rites of preparing for bed were elaborate. R. P. Graves Adams had fitted Perry Hall with elaborate precautions against burglary. G. Vidal A kind of skirt..tied at the waist with an elaborate belt.
elaborately adverb L16.
elaborateness noun M17.