Elaborate vs Magnificent - What's the difference?
elaborate | magnificent | Related terms |
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).
Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
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Exceptional for its kind.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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Elaborate is a related term of magnificent.
As adjectives the difference between elaborate and magnificent
is that elaborate is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated while magnificent is grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.As a verb elaborate
is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about).elaborate
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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?
magnificent
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Case of Miss Elliott, passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}
Man Utd 1-6 Man City, passage=Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.}}