elaboration (noun)

  • 11elaborately — elaborate ► ADJECTIVE ▪ involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated. ► VERB 1) develop or present in detail. 2) (elaborate on) add more detail to (something already said). DERIVATIVES elaborately adverb elaborateness noun …

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  • 12elaborateness — elaborate ► ADJECTIVE ▪ involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated. ► VERB 1) develop or present in detail. 2) (elaborate on) add more detail to (something already said). DERIVATIVES elaborately adverb elaborateness noun …

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  • 13elaborative — elaborate ► ADJECTIVE ▪ involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated. ► VERB 1) develop or present in detail. 2) (elaborate on) add more detail to (something already said). DERIVATIVES elaborately adverb elaborateness noun …

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  • 14over-elaborate — adjective excessively elaborate. verb explain or treat in excessive detail. Derivatives over elaborately adverb over elaboration noun …

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  • 15amplification — noun 1. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail (Freq. 1) a few remarks added in amplification and defense an elaboration of the sketch followed • Syn: ↑elaboration • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate ( …

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  • 16elaborateness — noun 1. marked by elaborately complex detail • Syn: ↑elaboration, ↑intricacy, ↑involution • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate (for: ↑elaboration), ↑elaborate …

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  • 17embellishment — noun 1. elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings • Syn: ↑embroidery • Derivationally related forms: ↑embroider (for:… …

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  • 18intricacy — noun marked by elaborately complex detail • Syn: ↑elaborateness, ↑elaboration, ↑involution • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate (for: ↑elaboration), ↑elaborate …

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  • 19working out — noun developing in intricate and painstaking detail • Syn: ↑elaboration • Derivationally related forms: ↑elaborate (for: ↑elaboration) • Hypernyms: ↑development …

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  • 20yolk sac — noun 1. membranous structure that functions as the circulatory system in mammalian embryos until the heart becomes functional • Syn: ↑vitelline sac, ↑umbilical vesicle, ↑vesicula umbilicus • Hypernyms: ↑sac 2. membranous structure enclosing the… …

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