adj. & v.
adj. 1 carefully or minutely worked out. 2 highly developed or complicated.
v.tr. 1 a work out or explain in detail. b (absol.) go into details (I need not elaborate). 2 produce by labour. 3 (of a natural agency) produce (a substance etc.) from its elements or sources. elaborately adv. elaborateness n. elaboration n. elaborative adj. elaborator n.
[ L elaboratus past part. of elaborare (as E-, labor work) ]