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more elaborate

ADJECTIVE

intricate; involved

Synonyms

STRONG

busy complicated decorated detailed embellished exact fancy garnished imposing labored ornamented overdone overworked perfected refined sophisticated studied

WEAK

careful complex elegant extensive extravagant fussy high tech highly wrought knotty labyrinthine luxurious many-faceted minute ornate ostentatious painstaking plush posh precise prodigious showy skillful thorough with all the extras with all the options with bells and whistles

Antonyms

STRONG

easy facile natural simple uncultured unrefined unsophisticated

WEAK

general normal plain regular uncomplicated unelaborate uninvolved usual

Example Sentences

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Two decades later, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian conducted a more elaborate “grievance studies” hoax.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

With each passing month, the book club became more elaborate and more involved — including vacations in coastal towns, costuming, pickleball tournaments and monogrammed custom merch.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

But some entrepreneurs have also identified business opportunities, including food sellers who offer hungry drivers bread and bananas, or more elaborate meals of spicy biryani rice.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Documents released under the National Archives of Ireland in Dublin show that, before the trip was cancelled, the agenda for the visit had become "rather more elaborate" than initially thought.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

I did not describe it in detail, only said it was a dolce, and I think he believed it was something more elaborate than bread pudding.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway