Thesaurus / overelaborate
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synonyms for overelaborate
- baroque
- beautiful
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- lavish
- magnificent
- opulent
- rococo
- sparkling
- sumptuous
- adorned
- aureate
- bedecked
- 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
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- embellish
- overdo
- color
- overstate
- distend
- lie
- stretch
- dramatize
- enlarge
- pad
- fudge
- falsify
- magnify
- puff
- heighten
- expand
- amplify
- elaborate
- hyperbolize
- aggrandize
- enhance
- romanticize
- build up
- play up
- yeast
- overestimate
- overemphasize
- blow-up
- make federal case
- make mountain out of molehill
- overembellish
- spread on thick
- stretch the truth
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How to use overelaborate in a sentence
"I see," said I—for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.
TWELVE STORIES AND A DREAMH. G. WELLSIt ought not to look overelaborate, even though it is spangled with silver or crystal or is made of sheer lace.
ETIQUETTEEMILY POSTIt was a Cosway; but a Cosway broadened and without a hint of genteel namby-pamby or overelaborate finesse.
VISIONARIESJAMES HUNEKERIt is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations.
THE CATHEDRALS OF SOUTHERN FRANCEFRANCIS MILTOUNWe had had two meals, one of which was as totally unnecessary as the other was overelaborate.
THE MESSAGEALEC JOHN DAWSONWORDS 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
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- beautiful
- bedecked
- 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.