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- Dictionaryover-elaborate/ˌəʊvə(r)ɪˈlab(ə)rət/
adjective
- 1. excessively elaborate: "a courtly, over-elaborate speech"
verb
- 1. explain or treat in excessive detail: "if they don't over-elaborate the story I don't question it"
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OVER-ELABORATE definition: 1. containing too much careful detail or too many detailed parts: 2. to add too much information…. Learn more.
the addition of too much information, too much careful detail, or too many detailed parts: In my opinion, his new song suffers from over-elaboration. She manages to avoid any literary overelaboration. Fewer examples. He is confident enough to write with a direct prose that needs no over-elaboration. Much art nouveau tends towards over-elaboration.
The meaning of OVERELABORATE is excessively elaborate. How to use overelaborate in a sentence.
1. excessively or fussily elaborate, ornate, detailed, etc. transitive verb. 2. to render or present with excessive or fussy detail. He so overelaborates his jokes that they lose their humor. intransitive verb. 3. to add excessive details, as in writing or speaking.
Overelaborate definition: excessively or fussily elaborate, ornate, detailed, etc.. See examples of OVERELABORATE used in a sentence.
He put the call through with an over-elaborate confidence which he angrily recognized as an attempt to deceive himself. Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald Jenkins Denise's plan, a good one in many respects, had the fault of being over-elaborate.
v.t. to render or present with excessive or fussy detail: He so overelaborates his jokes that they lose their humor. v.i. to add excessive details, as in writing or speaking: He overelaborates to an extent that his novels must be cut radically before being published. over - + elaborate. o′ver•e•lab′o•rate•ly, adv.
