| English Dictionary |
ELABORATENESS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does elaborateness mean?
• ELABORATENESS (noun)
The noun ELABORATENESS has 2 senses:
1. marked by elaborately complex detail
2. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
Familiarity information: ELABORATENESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by elaborately complex detail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
elaborateness; elaboration; intricacy; involution
Hypernyms ("elaborateness" is a kind of...):
complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)
Derivation:
elaborate (developed or executed with care and in minute detail)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
elaborateness; ornateness
Hypernyms ("elaborateness" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elaborateness"):
flamboyance; floridity; floridness; showiness (extravagant elaborateness)
fussiness (unnecessary elaborateness in details)
Derivation:
elaborate (marked by complexity and richness of detail)
Context examples
Daisy was not a Catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"A good year is determined by its spring." (Afghanistan proverb)
"Your tongue is your horseĀ if you take care of it, it takes care of you; if you betray it, betrays it will." (Arabic proverb)
"If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them." (Corsican proverb)