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elaborate 音標拼音: [ɪl'æbrət] [ɪl'æbɚ ,et] a. 精細的,詳盡的,精心的
vt. 詳細地說明,用心地制作,推敲
vi. 變復雜 精細的,詳盡的,精心的詳細地說明,用心地製作,推敲變復雜 elaborate adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; " an elaborate lace pattern" [ synonym: { elaborate}, { luxuriant}] 2: developed or executed with care and in minute detail; " a detailed plan"; " the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; " the carefully elaborated theme" [ synonym: { detailed}, { elaborate}, { elaborated}] v 1: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; " She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [ synonym: { elaborate}, { lucubrate}, { expatiate}, { exposit}, { enlarge}, { flesh out}, { expand}, { expound}, { dilate}] [ ant: { abbreviate}, { abridge}, { contract}, { cut}, { foreshorten}, { reduce}, { shorten}] 2: produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; " The bee elaborates honey" 3: make more complex, intricate, or richer; " refine a design or pattern" [ synonym: { complicate}, { refine}, { rarify}, { elaborate}] 4: work out in detail; " elaborate a plan" [ synonym: { elaborate}, { work out}] Elaborate \ E* lab" o* rate\, a. [ L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out laborare to labor, labor labor. See { Labor}.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. [ 1913 Webster] Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. -- Waller. Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high- wrought. -- { E* lab" o* rate* ly}, adv. -- { E* lab" o* rate* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster]
Elaborate \ E* lab" o* rate\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor [ 1913 Webster] They in full joy elaborate a sigh, -- Young. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. [ 1913 Webster] The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] 222 Moby Thesaurus words for " elaborate": Babylonian, Byzantine, Corinthian, Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, adorn, affected, amplify, arabesque, artificial, assemble, assiduous, awe- inspiring, awful, balled up, barbaric, baroque, beautify, build, busy, cast, chichi, clarify, comment, complete, complex, complicated, compose, compound, concoct, confounded, confused, construct, convolute, convoluted, crabbed, create, cultivate, daedal, decorate, decorated, deluxe, descant, detail, detailed, develop, devious, devise, dilate, diligent, discuss, dressy, dwell upon, elaborated, elegant, embellish, embellished, embrangled, embroider, enlarge, enlarge upon, enrich, entangled, enter into detail, erect, euphuistic, evolve, expand, expatiate, explain, explicate, expound, extravagant, extrude, fabricate, fancy, fashion, festoon, fine, finish, flamboyant, florid, flourish, flowery, form, formulate, fouled up, frame, frilly, fudge together, fussy, get up, gild, glorious, go into, gordian, grand, grandiose, high- wrought, hyperelegant, implicated, imposing, impressive, indite, industrious, interpret, intricate, involuted, involve, involved, knotted, knotty, labor, labored, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, load with ornament, loused up, luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, make, make up, mannered, manufacture, many- faceted, matted, mature, mazy, meandering, messed up, mixed up, mold, moresque, mucked up, multifarious, noble, operose, ornament, ornate, ostentatious, overcharge, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overlay, overload, overnice, overrefined, overworked, overwrought, painstaking, palatial, particularize, patch together, perfect, perplexed, picturesque, piece together, plush, polish, posh, precieuse, precieux, precious, prefabricate, prepare, pretentious, pretty- pretty, princely, produce, proud, put together, put up, raise, ramified, rear, refine, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, rich, ripen, ritzy, rococo, roundabout, run up, screwed up, season, sedulous, set up, shape, snarled, sophisticated, spell out, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, studied, subtle, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tangled, tangly, thorough, thoroughgoing, trick out, twisted, unfold, unnatural, varnish, whomp up, work out, write
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