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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.)).
  • noun illustration
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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