All 3 Uses of
elaborate
in
1984 by Orwell
- There were the huge printing-shops with their sub-editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs.
p. 42..6elaborately = abundantly (with detail and complexity)
- But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Newspeak words crimestop, blackwhite, and doublethink, makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever.
p. 211..7 *elaborate = detailed
- He attempted more elaborate exercises, and was astonished and humiliated to find what things he could not do.
p. 276..1elaborate = complex or difficult
Definition:
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(elaborate as in: an elaborate design) having details and complexity -- sometimes fancy or ornateeditor's notes: Depending upon it's context, this sense of elaborate can additionally imply that details make something either:
- more special than others of its kind in a good way
- more complicated than necessary in a bad way