elaborate
elaborate
adjectiveDefinition of ELABORATE
1
made or done with great care or with much detail <elaborate festivities for the 200th anniversary of the town's founding>
Related Words elegant, exquisite, grand, magnificent, ornate, splendid; chichi, extravagant, exuberant, fancified, flamboyant, frilly, gimmicked (up), grandiose, ostentatious, overwrought, showy, souped-up; Byzantine, convoluted, involute, involuted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine
Near Antonyms modest, plain, plain-Jane, plain-vanilla, uncomplicated; bald, bare, naked, unadorned, undecorated, unvarnished
2
including many small descriptive features <the elaborate world known as Middle Earth that J.R.R. Tolkien created in his richly imagined novels>
Synonyms blow-by-blow, circumstantial, elaborate, full, minute, particular, particularized, thorough
Related Words enumerated, inventoried, itemized, listed, numerated; delineated, specific, specified; abundant, copious; comprehensive, encyclopedic, exhausting, exhaustive, inclusionary, inclusive, in-depth, omnibus, panoramic, thoroughgoing; accurate, correct, exact, precise; complete, entire, replete; distinct, explicit, sharp; mapped (out); descriptive, graphic (also graphical), picturesque, vivid
Near Antonyms brief, compact, concise, crisp, pithy, short, succinct, terse; abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut, pruned, shortened, trimmed; ambiguous, indeterminate, nebulous, nondescript, sketchy, vague; bird's-eye, broad, general, nonspecific, overall, unspecified
Antonyms compendious, summary
3
having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated <plans for a huge mall that will actually be an elaborate center for sports, entertainment, and shopping>
Synonyms baroque, byzantine, complicate, complicated, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled
Learn More About
Seen & Heard 
What made you want to look up elaborate[adjective]? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
