adjective. Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details.

adjective. Intricate and rich in detail.

intransitive verb. To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly.

intransitive verb. To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.

intransitive verb. To explain something at greater length or in greater detail.

To produce with labor; work out; produce in general.

Specifically To improve or refine by successive operations; work out with great care; work up fully or perfectly.

To be or become elaborate; be elaborated.

Wrought with labor; finished with great care and nicety of detail; much studied; executed with exactness; highly finished: as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance.

Synonyms Labored, perfected, highly wrought.

adjective. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking

transitive verb. To produce with labor.

transitive verb. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations.

adjective. Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated

adjective. intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy

verb. (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).

verb. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

verb. work out in detail

adjective. marked by complexity and richness of detail

verb. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

adjective. developed or executed with care and in minute detail

verb. make more complex, intricate, or richer

"Editors at "USA Today" say one of their former reporters engaged in what they call elaborate deception in a story claiming the Serb military ordered ethnic cleansing in Kosovo."

elementary  simple  

careful  fancy  

elaborated  elaborating  

create  develop  make  make grow  produce  

collaborate  

above  admirable  costly  formal  intricate  

Babylonian  Byzantine  Corinthian  Gongoresque  Gongoristic  

elaborated  elaborates  elaborating