elaborately

In detailed fashion

Elaborately means with great detail, complexity, or ornamentation.

Something done elaborately involves careful attention to intricacy: an elaborately decorated cake, She elaborately planned every detail of the wedding.

The word suggests effort and embellishment beyond the simple or functional—sometimes admiringly, sometimes implying excess.

ornate

ornately

With lavish decoration

festooned · bedecked · gilded · baroque · rococo · filigree · scrollwork · flourishes · embroidered · bejeweled

detailed

meticulously

With extreme care

precisely · carefully · methodically · systematically · comprehensively · scrupulously · rigorously · assiduously · conscientiously · fastidiously

extravagant

lavishly

With excessive generosity

grandly · magnificently · splendidly · resplendently · richly · regally · majestically · palatially · theatrically · dramatically

intricate

complexly

In an elaborate manner

serpentine · layered · multifaceted · interwoven · interconnected · nested · tiered · branching · webbed · latticed

Opposites
complexity/detail

elaboratelysimply

In plain terms

plainly · basically · sparely · austerely · minimally

effort/thoroughness

elaboratelysimply

In plain terms

cursorily · hastily · carelessly · perfunctorily · superficially

Phrases
Family

elaborate, elaborated, elaborates, elaborateness

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G