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.
Derivatives:
elaborately adv. elaborateness n. elaboration n. elaborative adj. elaborator n.
Etymology: L elaboratus past part. of elaborare (as E-, labor work)