over-elaborate
adjective
(alsooverelaborate)uk/ˌəʊ.vər.iˈlæb.ər.ət/us/ˌoʊ.vɚ.iˈlæb.ɚ.ət/containingtoo muchcarefuldetailor too manydetailedparts:
Thebookisspoiledby over-elaborate writing.
Herefusedmost of the overelaboratemeal, saying that he neveratemuch atlunchtime.
- Some of thecookingis abitover-elaborate, butportionsizesaregenerousand it is allreasonablypriced.
- The overelaboratedesignon thechurchwallsindicatesalaterperiodofconstruction.
- She waswearingan over-elaborateeveningdressandsilverstilettos.
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- delicacy
- finicky
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intractability
- multifarious
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-fussy
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom
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Detailed and careful
over-elaborate
verb[IorT]
formal(alsooverelaborate)uk/ˌəʊ.vər.iˈlæb.ə.reɪt/us/ˌoʊ.vɚ.iˈlæb.ə.reɪt/toaddtoo muchinformationabout something you have said, or toexplainit too much:
I don'tquestionwhat they say aslongas they don't over-elaborate thestory.
She does overelaborate fromtimetotimeandtryto be tooclever.
- It'seasyto over-elaborate theissue.
- Friends say that whentellingastoryorrelatingapieceofnews, I aminclinedtochangethings or overelaborate.
- Toofrequently, atendencyto overelaborate canleadtoextremelylongreports.
Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
- abstract
- anti-reductionism
- anti-reductionist
- broad brush
- broaden
- enlarge
- enlarge on/uponsomething
- expand
- expand onsomething
- expansively
- overgeneralization
- overgeneralize
- oversimplification
- oversimplify
- predigested
- specificity
- specify
- split hairsidiom
- standardization
- standardize