Synonyms for elaborate
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Ornamented
ornate, gaudy, decorated, garnished, showy, ostentatious, imposing, intricate, fussy, dressy, fancy, elegant, embellished, extravagant, refined, beautified, festooned, spangled, flowery, bedecked, flashy, baroque, rococo; see also ornate 1.
Antonyms plain, ordinary, austere.
Detailed
complicated, extensive, laborious, minute, widely developed, intricate, involved, highly organized, many-faceted, complex, convoluted, painstaking, studied, labored; see also complex 1, 2, detailed.
Antonyms simple, general*, careless.
See elaborate in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms
elaborate complicated intricate
These adjectives mean marked by complexity of detail: an elaborate lace pattern; the eye, a complicated organ; an intricate problem.
Antonym: simple
See elaborate in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Complexly detailed:
complicated, fancy, intricate. See plainDifficult to understand because of intricacy:
byzantine, complex, complicated, convoluted, daedal, Daedalian, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled. See simple
verb
To express at greater length or in greater detail:
amplify, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, labor. See explainTo disclose bit by bit:
develop, evolve. Idioms: fill in the details, go into detail. See show
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