ELABORATION Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

elaboration

noun

as in evolution

the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced the elaboration of the Internet from an exclusive computer network into a worldwide communications network of colossal proportions

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as in exaggeration

the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts the eyewitness was deemed unreliable because of his obvious elaboration of what he had actually seen

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Recent Examples of elaboration But only two days later, the operation was put on hold without much elaboration, other than that Pakistan and other countries requested it to move negotiations forward that would end the war. —

Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 7 May 2026 Far from settling the debate, Thursday’s elaborations are likely to only further stoke the controversy. —

Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026 Souvenirs of a romanticized fin-de-siècle Ruritania are presented without interest or elaboration. —

Literary Hub, 1 May 2026 Souvenirs of a romanticized fin-de-siècle Ruritania are presented without interest or elaboration. —

Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026 The pleas were brief and without much elaboration. —

Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026 McKay, who has lived in Imperial Beach for 63 years, described it without much elaboration. —

Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026 The press release did not provide details on the allegations and the office did not respond to a message seeking elaboration on specific cases. —

ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026 Her entry was the shortest in the statement and included no elaboration. —

Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for elaboration

Noun

As storms move east into Arkansas and the lower Mississippi Valley later in the day, forecasters expect some evolution into larger storm clusters, which may shift the dominant threat toward more widespread damaging winds while still supporting hail and isolated tornadoes.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
The evolution of the Anglo-American Special Relationship underscores important events of that global total war, and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras that have followed.

— Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026