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Definition of elaborate : 1. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work.
2. To produce with labor
3. Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

Synonyms:

puzzle out, set forth, brief, compute, painstaking, polish, odd, perplex, daedal, blow-by-blow, voluptuous, epicurean, particular, fatten out, sybaritic, elaborated, convoluted, difficult, thorough, calculate, contorted, tell, fat, unusual, dilate, descriptive, figure out, boom, minute, detailed, remarkable, sophisticated, figure, particularized, work up, out of the ordinary, extensive, careful, fatten, voluptuary, expound, rectify, give someone to understand (that), labored, circumstantial, enlarge, full, Daedalian, simple, inflate, exposit, fill out, report, exotic, distend, point out, laborious, general, labyrinthian, riotous, deliver, cipher, unique, expand, lucubrate, solve, careless, flourish, fine-tune, edited, surprising, broad, complicate, extend, magnify, expatiate, thrive, spread out, reckon, down, luxuriant, luxurious, divulge, work, blow up, 101, special, exuberant, relay, Byzantine, let someone know, profuse, lick, cypher, amplify, flesh out, round, incomprehensible, plump out, work out, knotty, broad-brush, studied, fatten up, notable, plump, confusing, rarify, advise, involute, exercise, lush, offbeat

confused, complicated, snarled, involved, perplexing, knotted, confounded, labyrinthine, intricate, complex, tangled

dressy, refined, flashy, ordinary, fussy, gaudy, spangled, ostentatious, imposing, plain, decorated, elegant, extravagant

flowery, ponderous, lofty, grandiloquent, baroque, opulent, highfalutin, gilded, fancy, embellished, showy, rich, ornate, voluble, bombastic, flamboyant, high-sounding, florid, rhetorical, splashy, rococo, eloquent, bloated, inflated

better, renovate, enhance, improve, enrich, further, upgrade, progress, garnish, refine, advance, correct, embellish

Usage examples:

• Lord Doningdale, who at first lingered with his other visitors, now joined them, and Maltravers was struck with his high- bred manner, and a singular and somewhat elaborate polish in his emphasis and expression. - "Ernest Maltravers, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
• But Andrew knew that he had been heard the first time, and he felt that this pretended slow awakening was too elaborate to be true. - "Way of the Lawless", Max Brand.
• This was served in the ballroom, and was a long and elaborate affair. - "The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912", Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone.