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Detailed and complicated in design and planning, involving many carefully arranged elements
“Andy Dufresne would come up with an elaborate plan to escape from Shawshank State Penitentiary.”
Visually impressive or showy
“The quirky designer's elaborate costumes were on full display during the fashion show.”
Magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense, and having a flavor of debauchery
Showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms
Involving the use of innovation or imagination during the process of creation
Bold, audacious or showy in behavior or manner
Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way
Elegant, smart, or stylish
(of technology) In a late stage of development
Wildly exaggerated or improbable
Strictly conventional in one's manner or behavior
(of a plan or piece of work) Difficult to achieve, requiring great effort or ability
Having a strange, curious or mysterious nature
Informative, containing lots of news
(elaborate on) To add more detail to something, especially of information
“He consistently demonstrates his ability perspicaciously to elaborate on a given scene, theme, or aspect of his novels or short stories.”
(elaborate on) To explain or provide information about something (in greater detail)
“Could you elaborate on your theory about how the pyramids were built by ancient aliens?”
To describe or express in too exaggerated terms
To speak or write authoritatively about a topic
To reveal or disclose (thoughts or information)
To make more beautiful or attractive by adorning or decorating
To develop gradually
To repeatedly ponder, persist or expand upon a thought, idea, or topic with attention and in detail
To make something more complex
To modify or edit in order to improve
To devise or come up with (an idea or plan)
To put a coating on, especially as a final touch
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