Antonyms for elaboration

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ih-lab-uh-rey-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˌlæb əˈreɪ ʃən

Definition of elaboration

Origin : 1570s, in a physiological sense relating to tissue development, from Late Latin elaborationem (nominative elaboratio), noun of action from past participle stem of elaborare "work out, produce by labor," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + laborare "to labor" (see labor (v.)).

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Example sentences :

The craving for excitement and for elaboration has ruined that blessing.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

It was an elaboration of the theories contained in his earlier book.
Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo

The system represents a series of compromises, not the elaboration of a theory.
Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen

A youth of this kind is raw material in its first stage of elaboration.
Extract from : « Elsie Venner » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

These theories merely an elaboration of one method of wage payment.
Extract from : « The Settlement of Wage Disputes » by Herbert Feis

A second version contains only an elaboration of this last motif.
Extract from : « A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs » by Hubert G. Shearin

It is splendid in colouring and wonderful in the elaboration of detail.
Extract from : « Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo » by W. Cope Devereux

She saw the entire purpose of creation to be the evolution and elaboration of the soul.
Extract from : « The Life Radiant » by Lilian Whiting

No elaboration could have equaled, in effect, the virtue of this restraint.
Extract from : « The Sleuth of St. James's Square » by Melville Davisson Post

Synonyms for elaboration

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