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unelaborate en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + elaborate.

Meanings

  1. Not elaborate; simple.
    • He uses a mode of lyric writing that’s unelaborate, untheoretical. 2007 September 3, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in The New York Times:
    • The body design has been carried out to the requirements of the B.T.C. Design Panel in association with the Design Research Unit and its lines are described as "intentionally unelaborate". 1959 March 14, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 124–125:

Forms

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more unelaborate Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unelaborate Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unelaborately · unelaborateness