more elaborate

ADJECTIVE

intricate; involved

Synonyms

STRONG

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

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONG

easy facile natural simple uncultured unrefined unsophisticated

WEAK

general normal plain regular uncomplicated unelaborate uninvolved usual

Example Sentences

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The short break for hilarious antics evolved into more elaborate dares that are now essential to “Queer Roast.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

But some entrepreneurs have also identified business opportunities, including food sellers who offer hungry drivers bread and bananas, or more elaborate meals of spicy biryani rice.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Documents released under the National Archives of Ireland in Dublin show that, before the trip was cancelled, the agenda for the visit had become "rather more elaborate" than initially thought.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

Each section—crucifixion, burial and resurrection—began with plainchant and continued with more elaborate settings of those and other sacred texts on the subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald