Elaborative vs. Elaborate

Elaborativeadjective

Serving to elaborate.

Elaborativeadjective

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

Elaborateadjective

Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

Elaborateadjective

Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

Elaborateverb

(transitive) to develop in detail or complexity

Elaborateverb

(intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand in detail

Elaborateadjective

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

Elaborateverb

To produce with labor

Elaborateverb

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.

Elaborateverb

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

Elaborateverb

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

Elaborateverb

work out in detail;

Elaborateadjective

marked by complexity and richness of detail;

Elaborateadjective

developed or executed with care and in minute detail;