adjective

1. worked out carefully; developed in great detail
2. highly wrought or ornamented; complicated
3. painstaking

Etymology: L elaboratus, pp. of elaborare, to work out, labor greatly < e-, out + laborare < labor, labor

transitive verb elaborated -·rat′ed, elaborating -·rat′·ing

1. to produce by effort
2. to work out carefully; develop in great detail
3. to change (food or substances in the body) into compounds that can be assimilated, excreted, etc.

intransitive verb