Elaborate vs Deepen - What's the difference?
elaborate | deepen |
Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
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Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
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*:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
(used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
To make deep or deeper
To make darker or more intense; to darken
To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
To make lower in tone
To become deeper
To become darker or more intense
To become lower in tone
In lang=en terms the difference between elaborate and deepen
is that elaborate is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about) while deepen is to become lower in tone.As verbs the difference between elaborate and deepen
is that elaborate is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about) while deepen is to make deep or deeper.As an adjective elaborate
is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.elaborate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(elaborat)- What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
- Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
deepen
English
Verb
(en verb)- They deepened the well by 200 feet.
- The event deepened the prevailing gloom.
- News of her death deepened my sorrow.
- The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.
- The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.
- The crisis deepened in the following weeks.
- His voice deepened with age.
