Entry Word: elaborate

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 made or done with great care or with much detail <elaborate festivities for the 200th anniversary of the townʼs founding>

Synonyms complex, complicated, detailed, fancy, intricate, involved, sophisticated

Related Words elegant, grand, ornate, magnificent, splendid; extravagant, flamboyant, frilly, grandiose, ostentatious, overwrought; labyrinthine

Near Antonyms modest, plain, uncomplicated, unsophisticated

Antonyms simple

2 including many small descriptive features <the elaborate world known as Middle Earth that J.R.R. Tolkien created in his novels> — see detailed 1
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> — see complex 1