elaboration

elaboration is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
2. noun. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
3. noun. developing in intricate and painstaking detail
4. noun. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail

   "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"

   "an elaboration of the sketch followed"

   Synonyms: amplification

5. noun. marked by elaborately complex detail

   Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution

6. noun. a discussion that provides additional information

   Synonyms: enlargement, expansion

7. noun. the result of improving something

   "he described a refinement of this technique"

   Synonyms: refinement

Synonyms

amplification, elaborateness, intricacy, involution, enlargement, expansion, refinement

Common word forms

elaborations

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