Thesaurus / overelaborate
other words for overelaborate
- baroque
- beautiful
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- lavish
- magnificent
- opulent
- rococo
- sparkling
- sumptuous
- adorned
- aureate
- bright
- brilliant
- busy
- colored
- convoluted
- dazzling
- elaborate
- fine
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fussy
- glitzy
- glossy
- high-wrought
- jeweled
- luscious
- meretricious
- ornamented
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pretentious
- resplendent
- rich
- showy
- splashy
- superficial
- tawdry
- variegated
MOST RELEVANT
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
"I see," said I—for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.
Twelve Stories and a DreamH. G. Wells
It was a Cosway; but a Cosway broadened and without a hint of genteel namby-pamby or overelaborate finesse.
VisionariesJames Huneker
We had had two meals, one of which was as totally unnecessary as the other was overelaborate.
The MessageAlec John Dawson
It is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations.
The Cathedrals of Southern FranceFrancis Miltoun
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
WORDS RELATED TO OVERELABORATE
- aggrandize
- amplify
- blow-up
- build up
- color
- distend
- dramatize
- elaborate
- embellish
- enhance
- enlarge
- expand
- falsify
- fudge
- heighten
- hyperbolize
- lie
- magnify
- make federal case
- make mountain out of molehill
- overdo
- overelaborate
- overembellish
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- overstate
- pad
- play up
- puff
- romanticize
- spread on thick
- stretch
- stretch the truth
- yeast
- aggrandize
- amplify
- blow-up
- build up
- color
- distend
- dramatize
- elaborate
- embellish
- enhance
- enlarge
- expand
- falsify
- fudge
- heighten
- hyperbolize
- lie
- magnify
- make federal case
- make mountain out of molehill
- overdo
- overelaborate
- overembellish
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- overstate
- pad
- play up
- puff
- romanticize
- spread on thick
- stretch
- stretch the truth
- yeast
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- beautiful
- bright
- brilliant
- busy
- colored
- convoluted
- dazzling
- elaborate
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- fine
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fussy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- glitzy
- glossy
- high-wrought
- jeweled
- lavish
- luscious
- magnificent
- meretricious
- opulent
- ornamented
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overelaborate
- pretentious
- resplendent
- rich
- rococo
- showy
- sparkling
- splashy
- sumptuous
- superficial
- tawdry
- variegated
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.