elaborate meaning
EN[ɪˈlæbərət] [ɪˈlæbəreɪt]US
- VerbSGelaboratesPRelaboratingPT, PPelaboratedSUF-ate
- (intransitive) (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).
- What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?
- Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
- (intransitive) (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).
- AdjectiveCOMmore elaborateSUPmost elaborate
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- He puzzles that no one nowadays makes use of the elaborate terminology for degrees of nonwhiteness: quadroons and octoroons, mestizos and zambos and the rest.
- The greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of tragedies and comedies.
- The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of elaborate in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
- en elaborates
- en elaborated
- en elaborately
- en elaborateness
- en elaborated sap
Source: Wiktionary