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 

elaborateness
     n 1: marked by elaborately complex detail syn: elaboration, intricacy,
           involution
     2: an ornate appearance; being elaborately decorated syn: ornateness
see also:
elaboration intricacy involution ornateness 

45 moby thesaurus words for "elaborateness":
   babylonian splendor, arabesque, baroque, baroqueness, brilliance,
   chinoiserie, elegance, fanciness, fineness, flamboyance, floridity,
   floridness, floweriness, glory, gorgeousness, grandeur,
   grandiosity, grandness, imposingness, impressiveness, lavishness,
   luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, magnificence, majesty, moresque,
   nobility, ostentation, overelaborateness, overelegance,
   overornamentation, plushness, poshness, proudness, resplendence,
   richness, ritziness, rococo, splendidness, splendiferousness,
   splendor, state, stateliness, sumptuousness