- very complicated and detailed; carefully prepared and organized
- elaborate designs
- I had prepared a very elaborate meal.
- an elaborate computer system
Extra Examples- highly elaborate carvings
- It all turned out to be an elaborate hoax.
- The ceiling was tiled in an elaborate pattern.
- This elaborate deception fooled his family for ages.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
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- extremely
- fairly
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘produced by effort of labour’): from Latin elaborat- ‘worked out’, from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + labor ‘work’.Definitions on the go
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