Usually means: Adding details to enhance understanding.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word elaborative:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. elaborative: Merriam-Webster
  2. elaborative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elaborative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elaborative: Wordnik
  5. elaborative: Wiktionary
  6. Elaborative, elaborative: Dictionary.com
  7. Elaborative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. elaborative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Elaborative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. elaborative: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Elaborative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elaborative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Elaborative: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elaborative)

▸ adjective:  Serving to elaborate.

Similar:
overelaborate, superelaborate, over-elaborate, extrapolatory, extrapolative, augmentive, amplificatory, extenuative, advanced, extensive, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, terse, laconic

Types:
detailed, specific, thorough, in-depth, extensive, more...

Phrases:
elaborative faculty, more...

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Similar:
overelaborate, superelaborate, over-elaborate, extrapolatory, extrapolative, augmentive, amplificatory, extenuative, advanced, extensive, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, terse, laconic

Types:
detailed, specific, thorough, in-depth, extensive, more...

Phrases:
elaborative faculty, more...



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