ELABORATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does elaboration mean?
• ELABORATION (noun)
The noun ELABORATION has 5 senses:
1. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
2. the result of improving something
3. a discussion that provides additional information
4. marked by elaborately complex detail
5. developing in intricate and painstaking detail
Familiarity information: ELABORATION used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• ELABORATION (noun)
Meaning:
Addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
amplification; elaboration
Context examples:
a few remarks added in amplification and defense / an elaboration of the sketch followed
Hypernyms ("elaboration" is a kind of...):
expanding upon; expansion (adding information or detail)
Meaning:
The result of improving something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
elaboration; refinement
Context example:
he described a refinement of this technique
Hypernyms ("elaboration" is a kind of...):
advance; betterment; improvement (a change for the better; progress in development)
Meaning:
A discussion that provides additional information
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
expansion; elaboration; enlargement
Hypernyms ("elaboration" is a kind of...):
discourse; discussion; treatment (an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elaboration"):
expatiation (a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail)
embellishment; embroidery (elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail)
Meaning:
Marked by elaborately complex detail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
intricacy; elaborateness; involution; elaboration
Hypernyms ("elaboration" is a kind of...):
complexity; complexness (the quality of being intricate and compounded)
Meaning:
Developing in intricate and painstaking detail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
working out; elaboration
Hypernyms ("elaboration" is a kind of...):
development (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining)
