Elaborative vs. Elaborate — What's the Difference?

Serving to elaborate.

Planned or executed with painstaking attention to numerous parts or details

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

Intricate and rich in detail

To work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly

To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.

To explain something at greater length or in greater detail

Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

(transitive) to develop in detail or complexity

(intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.

To produce with labor

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.

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;

Produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product;

Make more complex, intricate, or richer;

Work out in detail;

Marked by complexity and richness of detail;

Developed or executed with care and in minute detail;