elaborate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]1575, from Late Latin ēlabōrātus (“worked out”), past participle of ēlabōrō (“to work out”), from ē- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Adjective: ĭlă'bərət, IPA(key): /ɪˈlæbəɹət/
- Verb: ĭlă'bərāt, IPA(key): /ɪˈlæbəɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)
- Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
- After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.
- Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
- I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]detailed
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flashy or fancy
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Verb
[edit]elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)
- (transitive) Тo develop in detail or complexity.
- Synonym: work out
- 1871, “Bismarck”, in All the Year Round, volume 5, page 129:
- […] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
- 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:
- The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
- (intransitive, sometimes followed by the prepositions on or upon) To expand/enlarge in detail.
- What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?
- Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to develop in detail or complexity — see also work out
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to give further detail or explanation
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References
[edit]- “elaborate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Ido
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]elaborate
- adverbial present passive participle of elaborar
Interlingua
[edit]Participle
[edit]elaborate
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]elaborate
Participle
[edit]elaborate f pl
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]elaborate
- inflection of elaborare:
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.ɫa.boːˈraː.tɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.la.boˈraː.t̪e]
Verb
[edit]ēlabōrāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]elaborate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of elaborar combined with te
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