LekhoriLekhoriComplex, detailed, or sophisticated.
After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.
Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.
Тo develop in detail or complexity.
[…] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
1575, from Late Latin ēlabōrātus (“worked out”), past participle of ēlabōrō (“to work out”), from ē- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.
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