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elaborate English

Meaning elaborate meaning

What does elaborate mean?
Definitions in simple English

elaborate Adjective

— When something is supposed to be elaborated, it is needed to be expanded or add details to. Just saying the cat is tall does not show enough details about the cat, please elaborate about it.

elaborate

— adjective marked by complexity and richness of detail an elaborate lace pattern — verb add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation — adjective (= detailed, elaborated) developed or executed with care and in minute detail a detailed plan the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion — John Buchan the carefully elaborated theme — verb produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product The bee elaborates honey — verb (= work out) work out in detail elaborate a plan — verb (= refine) make more complex, intricate, or richer refine a design or pattern

Synonyms elaborate synonyms

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elaborate English » English

detailed exquisite fine develop intricate work out minute enlarge refine elaborated delicate scrupulous expound expand complicated artistic amplify tangly refined rarify prepare polish perfect painstaking neat manufacture luxuriant lucubrate ingenious flesh out exposit expatiate embellish dilate dainty complicate complex circumstantial careful build beautiful adorn accurate workmanlike work up turn out trim tasteful stylish spell out

Topics elaborate topics

What do people use elaborate to talk about?
Language and thought Teach

Show, explain
Physical actions Arrange

Simple, complicated

Conjugation elaborate conjugation

How do you conjugate elaborate?

elaborate · verb

Examples elaborate examples

How do I use elaborate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Those supposed photos of a UFO were finally debunked as an elaborate forgery.
Could you elaborate?
Tom didn't seem inclined to elaborate and I didn't really want to know all the details anyway.
His theory is based on elaborate investigation.
Can you elaborate on this a little more?
We agreed to elaborate a strategy.
We agreed to elaborate an action plan.
The knights wore elaborate suits of armor.
The princess always wore very elaborate hairstyles.
The princess wore an elaborate dress.
Well, I clean the rooms, do the laundry, or cook an elaborate supper.
Frequently repeated elaborate lies that seem too out there to be true, still triumph over vastly simpler and more intuitive truths.
Could you elaborate on that?
Tom didn't want to elaborate.
The male grouse performs elaborate dances in order to attract a mate.

Movie subtitles

Detective, if my client had any part in this elaborate ruse that you're suggesting, then why would he not have used another name?
Care to elaborate?
From what I've seen of the boy, the Kirbys are probably very nice and if things aren't too elaborate tomorrow night, why, it will be all right, too.
I was wondering what Jekyll would do if I asked him to elaborate.
Sorry if I've upset your theories about me, which I imagine are much more elaborate, but.
An extraordinarily elaborate practical joke at my expense.
But neither Mrs Brougham nor myself like elaborate desserts.
This is going to be an elaborate party and it's for you.
I, with my elaborate bouquet. awaiting my chance.
Before you get so elaborate and simple. you'd better hear what your father has to say.
All that elaborate pretending.
We didn't invent our non-existent man and give him the name of George Kaplan establish elaborate behavior patterns for him move his prop belongings in and out of hotel rooms, for our private amusement.
Nothing elaborate, of course.
Well, he could do the usual things, card tricks, all that sort of stuff, but then he announced that he was going to attempt somethingvery elaborate.
Exactly, nothing elaborate.
Roy Seawright's effects weren't as elaborate as those in The Invisible Man, but they were well done.
Nothing as elaborate as all that, Mrs. Lancing.
If he'd known what was up tonight he could have been so elaborate and mysterious he'd a given the whole show away.
I'll tell you why because your whole elaborate system here isn't worth a brass furling.
An extraordinarily elaborate practical joke at my expense. - Oh, really!
This sounds like a very elaborate way Of recouping part of your loss. However, I've gone this far.
These plans are too elaborate for the money you have to spend.
Care to elaborate on that?
We didn't invent our nonexistent man and give him the name of George Kaplan and establish elaborate behavior patterns for him and move his prop belongings in and out of hotel rooms for our own private amusement.
Elaborate on that.
My dear cousin, your innocence is far too elaborate.
It's an elaborate ritual.
I don't care to elaborate.
Sorry if I've upset your theories about me, which must be more elaborate, but.
But I have known people who make elaborate sacrifices for reasons they don't understand.
She claimed elaborate, fine feelings and scruples, simply absurd in a girl in that position.
Since you've already read the file, I won't elaborate.
The sooner and more elaborate these tests can be made, the better.

News and current affairs

But the European Council also created a Task Force under President Herman Van Rompuy to elaborate concrete proposals for reforming the monetary union.
Major states with elaborate technical and human resources could, in principle, create massive disruption and physical destruction through cyber attacks on military and civilian targets.
This elaborate architecture (and there is a lot more) was assembled piecemeal in the 1980s and 1990s.
And dogs don't gesture with their forepaws or use an elaborate grammatical language when trying to explain things.
The Russian government essentially provoked Georgia into attacking first and then crafted an elaborate justification aimed at rendering its actions compatible with international law.
This levy would represent a sort of automatic fine, thus making the elaborate structure of the Pact redundant.
We design contracts around imperfect trustworthiness and construct elaborate institutions that take account of the hills and valleys of human honor.
Intelligence collection is a good example, and the elaborate Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges seems to have been a government creation.
Today, it is clear that fundamentalists and their supporters are completely closed off to even the most elaborate theological refutation of their views, even when produced by distinguished religious authorities.
The final deal is an elaborate piece of financial and political engineering whose ultimate effect is almost impossible to predict.
In Pennsylvania, a 1998 inquiry into a supermax prison notorious for racist guards revealed videotapes of routine beatings and elaborate rituals of humiliation.
Archeologists still find elaborate (and probably expensive in those days) two-pan balance scales and weights on sunken bronze-age merchant ships.
As a result, elaborate systems of laws are needed to ensure that competition is open and fair, that monopolies and trusts do not destroy competition itself.
Elaborate cost-benefit analyses of major projects have been standard practice in the defense department and elsewhere in government for almost a half-century.
She has been accused, but not convicted, of corruption several times, with one notable case involving the construction of an elaborate shopping complex near the Taj Mahal, in violation of zoning laws.
Analyzing these events much later, historians constructed elaborate typologies to distinguish between fascist and merely authoritarian regimes.
But all this means is that the facades will have to be more subtle and the fictions more elaborate.
There was an elaborate gradation and hierarchy among the middle-ranking and even untouchable castes, which governed interaction between them and kept inter-caste socialization to a minimum.
Fortunately, China has developed a method of elaborate consultations that, while not democratic, do give the various interest groups involved a voice in determining policy.
But these theories turned out to be as riddled with infinities as their grandparents, and elaborate ad hoc schemes were invented to deal with the new problems encountered.
Arab elites have been engaged in a false embrace of economic reforms for decades, with countless ministerial shuffles, five-year plans, and elaborate World Bank and International Monetary Fund programs.
The scale of the problems makes more elaborate solutions necessary.

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