All 4 Uses of
elaborate
in
Everworld - Search For Senna
- The helmets came down to below the ear and had a nose guard. Nothing elaborate.
Chpt 9elaborate = 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 19elaborately = with much detail or complexity
Definitions:
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(1)
(elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan) add details or explain in detail
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(2)
(elaborate as in: an elaborate design) having details and complexity -- sometimes fancy or ornateDepending 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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(3)
(elaborate as in: an elaborate wink) to exaggerate an actionAt times, this sense of elaborate can further imply that an action was exaggerated by prolonging it (performing it more slowly than normal).