All 4 Uses

elaborate
in
Everworld - Search For Senna
(Edited)

The helmets came down to below the ear and had a nose guard. Nothing elaborate.
Chpt 9

elaborate = having details and complexity
He was dressed in rags, but rags that had once been an elaborate costume.
Chpt 9
Some carried battle-axes with carved handles and elaborate heads.
Chpt 18 *

elaborate = complex (in design)
These were rich men, powerful men: silver brooches, lush furs, polished leather, chains of silver baubles around their necks, elaborately filigreed silver goblets, silver-handled knives sticking out of the piles of meat before them.
Chpt 19

elaborately = with much detail or complexity

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)