Words and phrases that have a meaning related to elaborate: (215 results)
Often used in the same context:
intricate, extravagant, specific, grandiose, coy, detailed, fanciful, ornate, formal, grander, unclear, lavish, showy, multilayered, untraditional, outlandish, unspecified, artful, tightlipped, ingenious, fantastical, sophisticated, exact, complicated, flashy, meticulous, unusual, haphazard, impromptu, cryptic, prosaic, actual, splashy, esoteric, ostentatious, unforthcoming, unorthodox, ritualistic, imaginative, elegant, glitzy, evasive, diagrammatic, sketchy, decorative, per se, delicate, informal, convoluted, offhand, noncommital, vague, overdecorated, exhaustive, banal, bizarre, unconventional, simple, undisclosed, swagged, filigreed, simplistic, straightforward, whimsical, sinister, rudimentary, diversionary, pyrotechnical, baroque, privy, overt, rococo, multifaceted, upstage, unspecific, secretive, phantasmagorical, theatric, amateurish, tawdrier, fancier, unaware, ulterior, architectural, deliberate, hieratic, minimalist, opulent, ornamental, discreet, precise, gaudy, spectacular, cagey, latticelike, subtler, courtly, rube goldberg, prettying, conceptual, tasteful, garish, formalized, simpler, simplified, cumbersome, elaborated, conventional, enumerative, classic, comprehensive, factorial, sequential, simplest, alternative
More specific:
detail, develop, exemplify, exposit, filibuster, illustrate, instance, involve, particularize, set forth, sophisticate, specialize, specify
Appears in the definition of:
., aria, bali, banqueting, baroque, baroqueness, brahmana, byzantine, ceremony, churrigueresco, churrigueresque, cobweb, coffee-table book, contrivance, develop, de trop, disquisition, dodge, dress, embellished, empurpled, explicate, fan vaulting, feast, feasting, fete, fiesta, finery, fixings, float, flowery, follies, form, formulate, gateau, haute cuisine, high mass, inelaborate, john lyly, lyly, manakin, ornate, over-embellished, pageant, pageantry, plain, plume, preen, prickleback, primp, program, purple, roulade, scheme, simple, snipe hunt, snow job, spectacle, stateliness, stickleback, stratagem, strategy, toccata, unelaborate, victorian architecture
Synonyms:
Also try:careful, complicate, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, fancy, flesh out, luxuriant, rarify, refine, work out
— Nouns for elaborate: system, systems, structure, work, preparations, scheme, ritual, plans, discussion, machinery, description, more...
Commonly used words are shown in bold. Rare words are dimmed.
Click on a word above to view its definition.
Click on a word above to view its definition.