All 6 Uses

elaborate
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)

Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay.
p. 6.7

elaborate = having ornate details
Mrs. Wilson had changed her costume some time before, and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-colored chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room.
p. 30.8

elaborate = having fancy detail
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
p. 33.9 *

elaborateness = level of detail
[Nick describing Gatsby:] ...I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.
p. 48.5 *

elaborate = exaggerated
I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say: So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.
p. 64.9

elaborate = fancy or ornate
It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it.
p. 79.3

elaborate = complicated

Definitions:

(1) (elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan)
add details or explain in detail
(2) (elaborate as in: an elaborate design)
having details and complexity -- sometimes fancy or ornate
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
or:
- more complicated than necessary in a bad way
(3) (elaborate as in: an elaborate wink)
to exaggerate an action

At times, this sense of elaborate can further imply that an action was exaggerated by prolonging it (performing it more slowly than normal).
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)