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1. elaborate

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Usually means: Develop in detail, add complexity.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word elaborate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. elaborate: Merriam-Webster
  2. elaborate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elaborate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elaborate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elaborate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elaborate, elaborate: Wordnik
  7. elaborate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elaborate: Wiktionary
  9. elaborate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elaborate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elaborate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. elaborate: Dictionary.com
  13. elaborate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Elaborate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. elaborate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. elaborate: Rhymezone
  17. Elaborate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. elaborate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. elaborate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. elaborate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. elaborate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. elaborate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elaborate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. elaborate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. elaborate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elaborate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elaborate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
▸ adjective:  Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
▸ verb:  (transitive) Тo develop in detail or complexity.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, sometimes followed by the prepositions on or upon) To expand/enlarge in detail.

Similar:
intricate, detailed, fancy, complicate, careful, luxuriant, expatiate, dilate, expound, enlarge, more...

Opposite:
simple, plain, basic, straightforward, uncomplicated

Types:
simple, complex, intricate, ingenious, ingenuous, ingenuousness, ingenuousnesses, more...

Phrases:
elaborate on, in an elaborate way, over elaborate, elaborate musical composition, to elaborate, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     emerald,     sapphire,     ruby, more...

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Similar:
intricate, detailed, fancy, complicate, careful, luxuriant, expatiate, dilate, expound, enlarge, more...

Opposite:
simple, plain, basic, straightforward, uncomplicated

Types:
simple, complex, intricate, ingenious, ingenuous, ingenuousness, ingenuousnesses, more...

Phrases:
elaborate on, in an elaborate way, over elaborate, elaborate musical composition, to elaborate, on an elaborate scale, elaborate parties, elaborate meal, elaborate musical, elaborate celebration, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     emerald,     sapphire,     ruby, more...



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