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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Ms. Penny has no peer in her ability to situate the lives of sympathetic characters within such elaborate and thrilling storylines.

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Dickens fans will doubtless remember some of the droller names of the characters in his novels, elaborated in the journal he called his Book of Memoranda.

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After the young magicians put on an elaborate show and heist in which nothing is as it seems, especially if it seems interesting, the Horsemen from the previous movies show up with some notes.

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Spurred on, Frank soon posted an Instagram reel elaborating further on Whitten’s career.

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