[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

elaborate \elab"orate\, a. l. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
   to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. see
   labor.
   wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
   executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
   discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
   1913 webster

         drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --waller.

   syn: labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
        -- elab"orately, adv. -- elab"orateness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
labor elab"orately elab"orateness 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

elaborate \elab"orate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. elaborated; p.
   pr.  vb. n. elaborating.
   1. to produce with labor
      1913 webster

            they in full joy elaborate a sigh,    --young.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            the sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
            as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster
see also:
elaborated elaborating 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

elaborate
     adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate
            lace pattern" syn: luxuriant
     2: 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" syn: detailed, elaborated
     v 1: 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"
          syn: lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh
          out, expand, expound, dilate ant: abridge
     2: produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more
        developed product; "the bee elaborates honey"
     3: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or
        pattern" syn: complicate, refine, rarify
     4: work out in detail; "elaborate a plan" syn: work out
see also:
luxuriant detailed elaborated lucubrate expatiate exposit 
enlarge flesh out expand expound dilate 
abridge complicate refine rarify work out 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

222 moby thesaurus words for "elaborate":
   babylonian, byzantine, corinthian, gongoresque, gongoristic,
   marinistic, adorn, affected, amplify, arabesque, artificial,
   assemble, assiduous, awe-inspiring, awful, balled up, barbaric,
   baroque, beautify, build, busy, cast, chichi, clarify, comment,
   complete, complex, complicated, compose, compound, concoct,
   confounded, confused, construct, convolute, convoluted, crabbed,
   create, cultivate, daedal, decorate, decorated, deluxe, descant,
   detail, detailed, develop, devious, devise, dilate, diligent,
   discuss, dressy, dwell upon, elaborated, elegant, embellish,
   embellished, embrangled, embroider, enlarge, enlarge upon, enrich,
   entangled, enter into detail, erect, euphuistic, evolve, expand,
   expatiate, explain, explicate, expound, extravagant, extrude,
   fabricate, fancy, fashion, festoon, fine, finish, flamboyant,
   florid, flourish, flowery, form, formulate, fouled up, frame,
   frilly, fudge together, fussy, get up, gild, glorious, go into,
   gordian, grand, grandiose, high-wrought, hyperelegant, implicated,
   imposing, impressive, indite, industrious, interpret, intricate,
   involuted, involve, involved, knotted, knotty, labor, labored,
   labyrinthian, labyrinthine, load with ornament, loused up,
   luxuriant, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, make, make up,
   mannered, manufacture, many-faceted, matted, mature, mazy,
   meandering, messed up, mixed up, mold, moresque, mucked up,
   multifarious, noble, operose, ornament, ornate, ostentatious,
   overcharge, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored,
   overlay, overload, overnice, overrefined, overworked, overwrought,
   painstaking, palatial, particularize, patch together, perfect,
   perplexed, picturesque, piece together, plush, polish, posh,
   precieuse, precieux, precious, prefabricate, prepare, pretentious,
   pretty-pretty, princely, produce, proud, put together, put up,
   raise, ramified, rear, refine, rehearse in extenso,
   relate at large, rich, ripen, ritzy, rococo, roundabout, run up,
   screwed up, season, sedulous, set up, shape, snarled,
   sophisticated, spell out, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous,
   stately, studied, subtle, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine,
   swank, swanky, swell, tangled, tangly, thorough, thoroughgoing,
   trick out, twisted, unfold, unnatural, varnish, whomp up, work out,
   write

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