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Enlight vs Elaborate - What's the difference?

enlight | elaborate |

As verbs the difference between enlight and elaborate

is that enlight is to illuminate while elaborate is (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).

As an adjective elaborate is

highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

enlight

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To illuminate.
    • Which from the first has shone on ages past, / Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. — Pope.

    Related terms

    * enlighten (Webster 1913)

    elaborate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
  • :
  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (elaborat)
  • (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
    • 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?