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English Dictionary: elaborateness by the DICT Development Group
2 results for elaborateness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaborateness
n
  1. marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution]
  2. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
    Synonym(s): ornateness, elaborateness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare
      to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See
      {Labor}.]
      Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied;
      executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate
      discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
  
               Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller.
  
      Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought.
               -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n.
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