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elaborateness

3 definitions found for elaborateness

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  elaborateness
      n 1: marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaborateness,
           elaboration, intricacy, involution]
      2: an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively)
         decorated [syn: ornateness, elaborateness]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "elaborateness":
     Babylonian splendor, arabesque, baroque, baroqueness, brilliance,
     chinoiserie, elegance, fanciness, fineness, flamboyance, floridity,
     floridness, floweriness, glory, gorgeousness, grandeur,
     grandiosity, grandness, imposingness, impressiveness, lavishness,
     luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, magnificence, majesty, moresque,
     nobility, ostentation, overelaborateness, overelegance,
     overornamentation, plushness, poshness, proudness, resplendence,
     richness, ritziness, rococo, splendidness, splendiferousness,
     splendor, state, stateliness, sumptuousness