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unelaborate

unelaborate adjective: not elaborate; simple.

Adjective

unelaborate (comparative more unelaborate, superlative most unelaborate)

  1. Not elaborate; simple.
    • 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, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 124–125
    • 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

Forms of unelaborate

comparativemore unelaborate
superlativemost unelaborate

Origin of unelaborate

From un- + elaborate.

Words formed from unelaborate

Questions about unelaborate

What does unelaborate mean?
Unelaborate means not elaborate; simple.
What part of speech is unelaborate?
Unelaborate is an adjective.

Words near unelaborate in the dictionary

  1. unegregious
  2. uneirenic
  3. unejaculated
  4. unejectable
  5. unejected
  6. unelaborate
  7. unelaborated
  8. unelaborately
  9. unelaborateness
  10. unelapsed
  11. unelastic

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