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elaborate

/ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/

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What does elaborate mean?

adjective

  1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

verb

  1. Тo develop in detail or complexity.
More meanings (1)

verb

  1. To expand/enlarge in detail.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/

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After about ten minutes he got up, and throwing on an elaborate dressing-gown of silk-embroidered cashmere wool, passed into the onyx-paved bathroom.
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayProject Gutenberg ebook #174
Her eye was once more taken by the show of wealth—the elaborate costumes, elegant harnesses, spirited horses, and, above all, the beauty.
Theodore DreiserSister Carrie: A NovelProject Gutenberg ebook #233
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We have no history of this woman ever having indulged in elaborate fabrications and, in general, she is of thoroughly good reputation.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
It is purely a religious ceremony, an elaborate supplication for rain, and is designed to propitiate the water god or snake deity.
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) MunkArizona SketchesProject Gutenberg ebook #756
These beginnings and crudities are very remote from the elaborate and expensive paraphernalia and machinery with which the art is furnished to-day.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820