elaborate
Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
Example
“After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.”
Other meanings
Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
“I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.”
Related words
- elaborately
- elaborateness
- elaboration
- inelaborate
- superelaborate
- unelaborate
- overelaborate
Word history
From Latin "ēlabōrātus" (worked out).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “elaborate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.