Elaborate

1. Elaborate Word of the Week

2. Definition • Elaborate means . . . • to add details in writing or speaking • to work out carefully • to develop to perfection • Also elaboration, elaborately, and elaborative

3. Elaborate • Synonyms: • to expand • detailed • In depth • Antonyms: • to reduce • simple • plain

4. Elaborate The cathedral has elaborate architecture.

5. Elaborate • Michelangelo painted an elaborate scene on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

6. Elaborate Writers elaborate with details just like a painter who adds brush strokes. Sentence without elaboration: “We were an awful sight at dinner.” Sentence with elaboration: Our jackets were torn and our stockings were wet and our shoes were sticky; we had green moss and brown bark on our hands and faces when we went in for supper and a scolding.” -- FROM the Collected Stories of Dylan Thomas

7. Elaborate • Remember that elaborate is . . . • to embellish and to expand • to add details to make better • intricate details seen in things like architecture, art, and writing