All 7 Uses of
elaborate
in
Ferris Beach
- There were no vacancies in Whispering Pines, though my father had once drawn up an elaborate plan of how he could skim a measley two yards off our side yard and sell something like twenty new plots.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)elaborate = having details and complexity
- we spent a lot of time concocting elaborate plans that we never had the nerve to carry out.
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *elaborate = detailed or complex
- The teas were always elaborate and the women were expected to dress for the occasion, mohair or Ultrasuede, whatever happened to be the thing.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)elaborate = having details and complexity
- It was not my taste in decorations either but I loved seeing them; I loved the nerve behind doing something so elaborately.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)elaborately = with much detail or complexity
- He mouthed the words, a pencil in his hand as he drew an elaborate greenhouse that he could never afford to really build.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)elaborate = having details and complexity
- He had gotten some clothes, some money, but didn't elaborate.
Chpt 21 (definition 2) *elaborate = tell more details
- "I heard from her a week ago," my father said, pencil in hand as he doodled an elaborate building.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)elaborate = having details and complexity
Definitions:
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(1) (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
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(2) (elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan) add details or explain in detail