elaborate adj
1 careful, detailed, exact, intricate, laboured, minute, painstaking, perfected, precise, skilful, studied, thorough
2 complex, complicated, decorated, detailed, extravagant, fancy, fussy, involved, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, showy vb
3 add detail, amplify, complicate, decorate, develop, devise, embellish, enhance, enlarge, expand (upon), flesh out, garnish, improve, ornament, polish, produce, refine, work out adj
2 basic, minimal, modest, plain, severe, simple, unadorned, unembellished, unfussy vb abbreviate, condense, put in a nutshell, reduce to essentials, simplify, streamline, summarize, truncate