elaborate

Adjective

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail
  • a detailed plan
    
  • the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion- John Buchan
    
  • the carefully elaborated theme
    

• marked by complexity and richness of detail
  • an elaborate lace pattern
    

Verb

• work out in detail
  • elaborate a plan
    

• make more complex, intricate, or richer
  • refine a design or pattern
    

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product
  • The bee elaborates honey
    

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
  • She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  detailed , elaborated , luxuriant , work out , complicate , refine , rarify , lucubrate , expatiate , exposit , enlarge , flesh out , expand , expound , dilate
• Antonyms: 
  abridge , foreshorten , abbreviate , shorten , cut , contract , reduce