Elaborate vs Jeremitaylorically - What's the difference?
elaborate | jeremitaylorically |
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).
(nonce) Like or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.
* 1818 , Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey
* 1960 , Frank Percy Wilson, Seventeenth Century Prose
As an adjective elaborate
is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.As a verb elaborate
is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about).As an adverb jeremitaylorically is
(nonce) like or his prose style; solemn, elaborate, ornate.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?
jeremitaylorically
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Adverb
(en adverb)- He sate with "his eye in a fine frenzy rolling," and turned his inspired gaze on Marionetta as if she had been the ghastly ladie of a magical vision; then placed his hand before his eyes, with an appearance of manifest pain — shook his head — withdrew his hand — rubbed his eyes, like a waking man — and said, in a tone of ruefulness most jeremitaylorically pathetic, "To what am I to attribute this very unexpected pleasure, my dear Miss O'Carroll?"
- I find his beauties cloying and his style too jeremitaylorically purple.