elaborate

Definition for elaborate

adjective as in intricate; involved

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busy, complicated, decorated, detailed, embellished, exact, fancy, garnished, imposing, labored, ornamented, overdone, overworked, perfected, refined, sophisticated, studied

Weak matches

careful, complex, elegant, extensive, extravagant, fussy, high-tech, highly wrought, knotty, labyrinthine, luxurious, many-faceted, minute, ornate, ostentatious, painstaking, plush, posh, precise, prodigious, showy, skillful, thorough, with all the extras, with all the options, with bells and whistles

verb as in make detailed; expand

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amplify, bedeck, clarify, comment, complicate, deck, decorate, develop, devise, discuss, embellish, enhance, enlarge, evolve, expatiate, explain, expound, garnish, improve, interpret, ornament, particularize, polish, produce, refine, specify, unfold

Weak matches

flesh out, work out

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This entire experience is an extremely elaborate virtual-reality game show, and at any moment I’m going to be told I’ve won a brand-new car.

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The crib itself was an elaborate wicker swinging cradle that squeaked when it rocked.

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He gestured at the elaborate construction going on around them.

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“Cassiopeia means that she would like you to elaborate on the comment you made a moment ago, about there being some resemblance between me and the children.”

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Of all the reintroductions of all the different species that are undertaken, only a small percentage currently have elaborate training-to-be-wild programs.

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