Elaborate vs Elongate - What's the difference?
elaborate | elongate |
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 long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
(obsolete) To remove further off.
As adjectives the difference between elaborate and elongate
is that elaborate is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated while elongate is lengthened, extended.As verbs the difference between elaborate and elongate
is that elaborate is (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about) while elongate is to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.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?
elongate
English
Verb
(elongat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)