elaborate

adj.精心的，精细的；v.精心制作；v.详细阐述

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
elaborate (adjective)
1.
planned or carried out with great care - took elaborate precautions
2.
marked by complexity, fullness of detail, or - ornateness elaborate prose
elaborate (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to produce by labor
2.
to build up (as complex organic compounds) from simple ingredients
3.
intransitive verb
to work out in detail - develop elaborate a theory
1.
to become elaborate - (see elaborate)
2.
to expand something in detail - would you care to elaborate on that statement
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
elaborate (adjective)
1.
made or done with great care or with much detail
SYNONYMS:
complex, complicated, detailed, fancy, intricate, involved, sophisticated
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
no-frills, simple, unfancy, unsophisticated
elaborate (adjective)
2.
including many small descriptive features
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 ( 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
compendious, summary
elaborate (adjective)
3.
having many parts or aspects that are usually interrelated
SYNONYMS:
baroque, byzantine, complicate, complicated, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled
RELATED WORDS:
overcomplex, overcomplicated; composite, compound, heterogeneous, mixed, multibranched, multifaceted, multifarious, multipart, varied; challenging, difficult, tough; impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, Kafkaesque, unfathomable, unintelligible
NEAR ANTONYMS:
oversimplified, simplified, simplistic; homogeneous, uniform, unvaried
noncomplex, noncomplicated, plain, simple, uncomplicated
elaborate (verb)
to gradually become clearer or more detailed
SYNONYMS:
elaborate, evolve, unfold
RELATED WORDS:
advance, fare, forge, get along, get on, march, proceed, progress; blossom, grow, mature, ripen; materialize; emerge, play out
elaborate (verb)
1.
to add to the interest of by including made-up details
SYNONYMS:
color, elaborate (on), embellish, exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, pad, stretch
RELATED WORDS:
dress up, gussy up; amplify, enhance, enlarge (on upon), expand, flesh (out); fudge, hedge; overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overplay, overstate; emphasize, play up, stress; caricature; satirize
NEAR ANTONYMS:
belittle, minimize, play down, understate
elaborate (verb)
2.
to express more fully and in greater detail
SYNONYMS:
amplify, develop, dilate (on upon), elaborate (on), enlarge (on upon), flesh (out)
RELATED WORDS:
add (to), complement, supplement; discourse, expatiate, ramble, run on
NEAR ANTONYMS:
compress, contract; outline, summarize, sum up
abbreviate, abridge, condense, shorten
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