• Adjective: ĭlă'bərət, IPA: /ɪˈlæbəɹət/
• Verb: ĭlă'bərāt, IPA: /ɪˈlæbəɹeɪt/

elaborate

1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

   After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.

2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

   I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

• German: ausführlich, durchdacht
• Italian: elaborato, dettagliato
• Portuguese: detalhado
• Russian: доскона́льный

• Italian: intricato
• Portuguese: elaborado
• Russian: замыслова́тый

elaborate (elaborates, present participle elaborating; simple past and past participle elaborated)

1. (transitive) Тo develop in detail or complexity.

   Synonyms: work out

   • 1871, “Bismarck”, in All the Year Round, volume 5, page 129:

     […] 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.

2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by the prepositions on or upon) To expand/enlarge in detail.

   What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?

   Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

• French: élaborer
• German: ausarbeiten
• Italian: elaborare
• Russian: разраба́тывать

• French: approfondir
• German: ausführen
• Italian: approfondire, dettagliare
• Portuguese: argumentar
• Russian: разраба́тывать
• Spanish: profundizar, explayar, expandir