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What is the adjective for elaborate?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb elaborate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

elaborate
  1. Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. complex, complicated, detailed, intricate, involved, convoluted, sophisticated, thorough, painstaking, particularised, particularized, tangled, extensive, fancy, full, particular, studied, tortuous, byzantine, careful, complicate, daedal, entangled, exact, involute, involuted, laboured, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, minute, perfected, precise, serpentine, baffling, bewildering, circumstantial, confusing, gingerbread, impenetrable, imposing, inextricable, knotty, labored, prodigious, skilful, skillful, many-faceted, overdone, overworked, refined … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Andy Dufresne would come up with an elaborate plan to escape from Shawshank State Penitentiary.”
      “The quirky designer's elaborate costumes were on full display during the fashion show.”
elaborative
  1. Serving to elaborate.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Long-term memory requires elaborative encoding in the inner part of the temporal lobes.”
      “Therefore, a more elaborative method has been developed, namely the household relationship matrix method.”
      “The simple designing in a elaborative mixture of the colours, is making this rug perfect for both modern and classical interiors.”
elaboratory
  1. Tending to elaborate.
elaborated
  1. (rhetoric) expanded
  2. Synonyms:
      3. full, elaborate, detailed, comprehensive, extensive, minute, particular, abundant, ample, circumstantial, copious, exact, exhaustive, explicit, lavish, painstaking, particularised, particularized, plentiful, precise, profuse, rich, seriatim, specific, thorough, accurate, complete, liberal, sufficient, in-depth, blow-by-blow, satisfying, broad-ranging, in detail, meticulous, all-inclusive, itemized, all-embracing, definite, developed, encyclopedic, encyclopaedic, enumerated, itemised, finicky, point-by-point, in depth, at length, careful, scrupulous … more
elaborating
  1. present participle of elaborate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. developing, embellishing, expanding, extending, improving, refining, broadening, enhancing, evolving, amplifying, augmenting, enlarging, reinforcing, supplementing, adding to, enlarging on, expanding on, garnishing, amplifying upon, building on, expanding upon, filling out, detailing, explaining, clarifying, particularising, particularizing, discussing, specifying, unfolding, expatiating, interpreting, expounding, expatiating on, fleshing out, adding detail to, adding flesh to, extending upon, going into detail on, putting flesh on the bones of, going on about … more
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