Synonyms for elaborate
ɪˈlæb ər ɪt; -əˌreɪtelab·o·rate

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1. elaborate

   Synonyms:
   execute, forge, prepare, concoct, mature

   Antonyms:
   misconceive, mismanage, misconstrue, hit, conjecture, guess, extemporize, chance

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1. elaborate, luxuriantadjective

   marked by complexity and richness of detail

   "an elaborate lace pattern"

   Synonyms:
   elaborated, epicurean, luxurious, detailed, profuse, luxuriant, sybaritic, exuberant, voluptuary, lush, riotous, voluptuous

   Antonyms:
   plain, careless

2. detailed, elaborate, elaboratedverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   elaborated, luxuriant, detailed

   Antonyms:
   careless, plain

3. elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilateverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   work out, refine, fat, expound, fatten, exposit, dilate, fill out, spread out, extend, amplify, blow up, rarify, lucubrate, set forth, fatten up, thrive, magnify, plump, expatiate, inflate, expand, fatten out, flesh out, complicate, plump out, boom, enlarge, flourish, distend, round

   Antonyms:
   careless, plain

4. elaborateverb

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

   "The bee elaborates honey"

   Synonyms:
   expatiate, dilate, refine, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, work out, enlarge, rarify, complicate, exposit

   Antonyms:
   careless, plain

5. complicate, refine, rarify, elaborateverb

   make more complex, intricate, or richer

   "refine a design or pattern"

   Synonyms:
   refine, perplex, lucubrate, exposit, polish, down, rarify, fine-tune, work out, rectify, dilate, expatiate, expand, expound, flesh out, complicate, enlarge

   Antonyms:
   plain, careless

6. elaborate, work outverb

   work out in detail

   "elaborate a plan"

   Synonyms:
   work out, refine, expound, lick, exposit, dilate, work, puzzle out, figure, solve, reckon, rarify, lucubrate, cypher, cipher, expatiate, expand, flesh out, complicate, compute, figure out, calculate, enlarge, work up, exercise

   Antonyms:
   careless, plain

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1. elaborateverb

   Synonyms:
   bestow labor upon, work out

2. elaborateverb

   Synonyms:
   improve, refine, mature, ripen, prepare thoroughly

3. elaborateadjective

   Synonyms:
   labored, studied, high wrought, highly finished, elaborately prepared

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1. List of paraphrases for "elaborate":

   develop, detailed, complex, prepare, developed, formulate, explain, complicated, developing, devise

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1. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

2. Ana María Gazmuri:

   We nearly have 7,000 plants we're growing of different kinds and they're going to be used as the raw material to elaborate medications for three important clinical studies. One will be conducted by the National Cancer Institute for cancer patients; the second one is for patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy and will be conducted by the San Borja Arriarán Hospital. The third clinical study is for patients suffering from non-cancer related, chronic pain and conducted by the Las Higueras Hospital in Talcahuano.

3. Evan Buetow:

   I would love for Bergdahl to elaborate on the 'disturbing circumstances' that were going on in his unit, because I have no idea what he would be referring to. I am an open book and would testify to anything.

4. Elisabeth Hildebrand:

   In a certain sense, these early herders formed the first civilization of Eastern Africa with elaborate individual and community practices. In today's time of climate change and economic instability, we can all take a very important lesson from eastern Africa's first herders : Facing an equally challenging situation, they responded by coming together and strengthening their community.

5. Margaret Mead:

   The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.