All 6 Uses of
elaborate
in
Babbitt
- BABBITT'S preparations for leaving the office to its feeble self during the hour and a half of his lunch-period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war.†
Chpt 5
- The rites of preparing for bed were elaborate and unchanging.†
Chpt 7 *
- The wives refused, with giggles, but the men, speaking in a wide, elaborate, enjoyable manner, gloated, "Well, sooner than have you get sore at me, Georgie—"†
Chpt 8
- Mrs. Babbitt preferred the pictures in which handsome young women in elaborate frocks moved through sets ticketed as the drawing-rooms of New York millionaires.†
Chpt 12
- He was impatient as the jest elaborately rolled on to its denouement.†
Chpt 23
- He elaborately, heavily, jocularly tried to check them.†
Chpt 29 *
Definitions:
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(elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan) add details or explain in detail
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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