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| Main Entry: | elaborate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intricate; involved |
| Synonyms: | busy, careful, complex, complicated, detailed, elegant, exact, extensive, extravagant, fancy, fussy, imposing, knotty, labored, labyrinthine, luxurious, minute, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overworked, painstaking, perfected, plush, posh, precise, prodigious, refined, showy, skillful, sophisticated, studied, thorough, decorated, embellished, garnished, high tech, highly wrought, many-faceted, ornamented, with all the extras, with all the options, with bells and whistles |
| Antonyms: | general, normal, plain, regular, simple, uncomplicated, usual, unelaborate, uninvolved |
| Main Entry: | elaborate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make detailed; expand |
| Synonyms: | amplify, bedeck, clarify, comment, complicate, deck, decorate, develop, devise, discuss, embellish, enhance, enlarge, evolve, expatiate, explain, expound, garnish, improve, interpret, ornament, polish, produce, refine, specify, unfold, work out, flesh out, particularize |
| Antonyms: | simplify, make simple |
| Main Entry: | amplify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase in size or effect |
| Synonyms: | add, augment, beef up*, boost, build up, deepen, develop, elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise, strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen, flesh out, hike up, jack up, soup up |
| Antonyms: | abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, decrease, lessen, reduce, shorten, summarize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | baroque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decorative, especially architecture |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, convoluted, elaborate, extravagant, flamboyant, florid, gilt, grotesque, ornate, rich, rococo, embellished, ornamented, overdecorated |
| Antonyms: | plain, unadorned, undecorated |
| Main Entry: | complete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry out action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, actualize, cap, close, conclude, consummate, crown, determine, develop, discharge, do, effect, elaborate, end, equip, execute, fill, finalize, finish, fulfill, furnish, halt, make up, perfect, perform, realize, refine, round off, settle, supplement, terminate, ultimate, wind up*, wrap up*, bring to fruition, bring to maturity, call it a day, carry off, do thoroughly, effectuate, get through, go the limit, go through with, go whole hog, make good, put to bed, round out, sew up |
| Antonyms: | forget, halt, ignore, neglect, stop, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse, make difficult |
| Synonyms: | bedevil, clog, combine, confound, convolute, derange, disarrange, disorder, elaborate, embroil, entangle, fold, foul up*, handicap, impede, interweave, involve, jumble, mix up, muddle, multiply, obscure, perplex, ravel, screw up*, snafu*, snag, tangle, twist, upset, add fuel to fire, infold, interfuse, interrelate, make intricate, make waves, muck up*, open can of worms, render unintelligible, snarl up |
| Antonyms: | disentangle, ease, explain, facilitate, untangle, make simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complicated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, complex |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, arduous, can of worms*, convoluted, difficult, elaborate, fancy, hard, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, recondite, sophisticated, troublesome, various, Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, entangled, gasser, hi-tech, interlaced, mega factor, wheels within wheels |
| Notes: | something complex may be well-organized and logically constructed as well as subtle and intricate, while a thing that is complicated will have something irregular, perverse, asymmetrical in addition to fundamental intricacy; complex is more formal and technical (a problem in mathematics is complex) while something like personal life can be complicated |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contrived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overly planned |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, overdone, phony, strained, unnatural, manipulated, recherché, unspontaneous |
| Main Entry: | convoluted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complicated |
| Synonyms: | baffling, complex, confused, elaborate, impenetrable, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, perplexing, puzzling, serpentine, tangled, tortuous |
| Antonyms: | simple, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | derive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deduce a conclusion |
| Synonyms: | acquire, arrive, assume, collect, determine, develop, draw, educe, elaborate, elicit, evolve, excogitate, extract, follow, formulate, gain, gather, get, glean, infer, judge, make, make out, obtain, procure, put together, reach, receive, trace, work out |
| Antonyms: | create, invent |
| Main Entry: | detailed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | itemized, particularized |
| Synonyms: | abundant, accurate, all-inclusive, circumstantial, complete, complicated, comprehensive, copious, definite, developed, elaborate, exact, exhaustive, finicky*, full, fussy*, individual, intricate, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice, precise, specific, specified, thorough, amplified, at length, blow-by-blow, circumstantiated, clocklike, described, disclosed, elaborated, enumerated, exhausting, individualized, point-by-point, seriatim, unfolded |
| Antonyms: | brief, cursory, sparing, uncomplicated, inexhaustive, nonspecific, undetailed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discuss, speak about |
| Synonyms: | argue, chew*, comment, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dispute, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, harangue, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, talk, treat, voice, commentate, confab, dilate upon, dissert, dissertate, give a meeting, hold forth, sermonize |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dressy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | formal, fashionable |
| Synonyms: | chic, classy, dressed to the nines*, dressed up*, elaborate, elegant, fancy, ornate, ritzy, smart, stylish, dressed to kill, in high feather, looking sharp |
| Antonyms: | casual, dowdy, inelegant, informal, unstylish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dwell on/dwell upon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | linger over; be engrossed in |
| Synonyms: | consider, continue, elaborate, emphasize, expatiate, harp on*, involve oneself, tarry over |
| Antonyms: | forget, ignore, miss, pass |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | embellish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make beautiful; decorate |
| Synonyms: | adorn, amplify, array, beautify, bedeck, color, deck, dress up*, elaborate, embroider, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, festoon, fix up*, fudge*, garnish, gild, grace, magnify, ornament, overstate, spruce up*, trim, add bells and whistles, emblaze, give details, gussy up, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | deface, disfigure, mar, simplify, spoil, uglify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enlarge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or grow bigger; increase |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up*, blow up*, boost, broaden, build, bulk, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, elongate, embroider, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, grow, heighten, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, pad*, pyramid*, rise, spread, stretch, swell, upsurge, wax, widen, give details, grow larger, jack up, jazz up, make larger, slap on, snowball |
| Antonyms: | abridge, compress, condense, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce, shrink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop, progress |
| Synonyms: | advance, derive, disclose, educe, elaborate, emerge, enlarge, excogitate, expand, get, grow, increase, mature, obtain, open, result, ripen, unfold, work out |
| Antonyms: | block, decrease, halt, stop |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant, ornamental |
| Synonyms: | adorned, baroque, chichi*, complicated, cushy, custom, decorative, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, fanciful, florid, gaudy, intricate, lavish, ornate, ostentatious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, special, spiffy*, sumptuous, unusual, beautifying, decorated, embellished, frilly, froufrou, garnished, gingerbread |
| Antonyms: | plain, unfancy, unornamented |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flamboyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant, theatrical |
| Synonyms: | baroque, bombastic, brilliant, camp, chichi*, colorful, dashing, dazzling, elaborate, exciting, flaky*, flaming, flashy, florid, gaudy, glamorous, jazzy*, luscious, luxuriant, ornate, ostentatious, pretentious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, splashy, sporty, gassy, peacockish, swank, swashbuckling |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, modest, restrained, tasteful, unflashy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | high-flown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exalted, lofty |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, elaborate, exaggerated, extravagant, grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, showy, turgid |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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