elaborate
elaborate is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
- transitive verb. To produce with labor
- transitive verb. 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.
- verb. work out in detail
"elaborate a plan"
- verb. make more complex, intricate, or richer
"refine a design or pattern"
- 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"
- adjective. developed or executed with care and in minute detail- John Buchan
"a detailed plan"
"the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"
- adjective. marked by complexity and richness of detail
"an elaborate lace pattern"
Synonyms
complicate, rarify, refine, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, lucubrate, detailed, elaborated, luxuriant
Common word forms
elaborated, elaborates, elaborately, elaborating, elaborateness
Words from these letters
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