elaborate
adjective
• involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.
• "elaborate security precautions"
Similar:
complicated,
detailed,
intricate,
complex,
involved,
tortuous,
convoluted,
serpentine,
tangled,
knotty,
confusing,
bewildering,
baffling,
painstaking,
careful,
inextricable,
entangled,
impenetrable,
Byzantine,
Daedalian,
Gordian,
involute,
involuted,
ornate,
decorated,
embellished,
adorned,
ornamented,
fancy,
over-elaborate,
fussy,
busy,
ostentatious,
extravagant,
showy,
baroque,
rococo,
florid,
wedding-cake,
gingerbread,
flash,
flashy,
elaborate
verb
• develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in further detail.
• "the theory was proposed by Cope and elaborated by Osborn"
• (of a natural agency) produce (a substance) from its elements or simpler constituents.
• "many amino acid and peptide hormones are elaborated by neural tissue"
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘produced by effort of labour’, also in elaborate (sense 2 of the verb)): from Latin elaborat- ‘worked out’, from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out’ + labor ‘work’.
