ELABORATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elaborately mean? 

• ELABORATELY (adverb)
  The adverb ELABORATELY has 1 sense:

1. with elaboration

  Familiarity information: ELABORATELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELABORATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With elaboration

Synonyms:

elaborately; in an elaborate way; intricately

Context example:

it was elaborately spelled out

Pertainym:

elaborate (marked by complexity and richness of detail)

 Context examples 

“Hump,” he said to me, elaborately polite, “kindly take Mr. Mugridge’s arm and help him up on deck. He is not feeling very well.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The inner mitochondrial membrane encloses a fluid-filled matrix and is elaborately folded with shelf-like cristae projecting into the matrix.

(Inner Mitochondrial Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

Its second rising displayed a more elaborately prepared scene than the last.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The neocortex is smooth in rodents; in humans and non-human primates, it’s elaborately folded.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

At the further end, in two high chairs as large as that of the Abbot, though hardly as elaborately carved, sat the master of the novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark mirthful eyes and a thick outgrowth of crisp black hair all round his tonsured head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That it might the better escape notice, he had invented a fiction that it belonged to Mr. Blackboy, and was to be left with Barkis till called for; a fable he had elaborately written on the lid, in characters now scarcely legible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The two younger of the trio (fine girls of sixteen and seventeen) had grey beaver hats, then in fashion, shaded with ostrich plumes, and from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled; the elder lady was enveloped in a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted; and afterwards, in listening to the sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum of conversation as the drawing-room door opened and closed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)