detailed, elaborate, elaborated
(adjective) 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”
elaborate, luxuriant
(adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail; “an elaborate lace pattern”
elaborate, work out
(verb) work out in detail; “elaborate a plan”
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
(verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer; “refine a design or pattern”
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
(verb) 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”
elaborate
(verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; “The bee elaborates honey”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)
Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)
(transitive) to develop in detail or complexity
(intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand in detail
Source: Wiktionary
E*lab"o*rate, a. Etym: [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor.]
Definition: Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. 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.
E*lab"o*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young.
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. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
