(rhetoric) expanded

simple past tense and past participle of elaborate

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. / Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

(transitive) to develop in detail or complexity / (intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail

In an elaborate manner.

(uncountable) The state of being elaborate / (countable) Something elaborate

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elaborate

present participle of elaborate

plural of elaboration