elaborateness Definition

elaborate
adj

1. Complicated in design; complex.

Thesaurus: extravagant, fancy, ornate, ornamental, decorative, detailed; showy, ostentatious, fussy, complicated, complex, involved, detailed, convoluted, intricate; Antonym: plain, simple.
2. Carefully planned or worked out.

Thesaurus: painstaking, laboured, thorough, detailed, exact, careful, minute, precise.

verb elaborated, elaborating

intr
1. To add detail to it.

Thesaurus: explain, detail, expand, develop, flesh out, enlarge upon, refine, develop, amplify; Antonym: simplify.
Form: elaborate on something (usually)
Form: elaborate upon something
2. To work out something in great detail.
3. To make something more ornate.
4. physiol.
To convert (eg food) into complex substances.

Derivative: elaborately
adverb

Derivative: elaborateness
noun

Derivative: elaboration
noun

Derivative: elaborative
adj

Derivative: elaborator
noun

Etymology: 16c as adj: from Latin elaborare, elaboratum.