elaborately

elaborately
elaborate ADJECTIVE involving many carefully arranged parts; detailed and complicated.
VERB 1) develop or present in detail. 2) (elaborate on) add more detail to (something already said).
DERIVATIVES elaborately adverb elaborateness noun elaboration noun elaborative adjective.
ORIGIN from Latin elaborare 'work out' .

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