Word Meanings - INELABORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.

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• ELABORATE
  Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller. Syn. -- Labored; complicated;
• CRUDELY
  In a crude, immature manner.
• ELABORATED
  developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate.
• WROUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Work. Alas that I was wrought ! Chaucer.
• CRUDENESS
  A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
• UNPOLISH
  To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
• UNFINISHED
  Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.
• CRUDE
  Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art. (more info) crudus raw; akin to cruor blood . See Raw, 1. In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed;
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• RECRUDESCENT
  recrudescere to become raw again; pref. re- re- + crudescere to 1. Growing raw, sore, or painful again. 2. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.
• RECRUDESCE
  To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive. The general influence . . . which is liable every now and then to recrudesce in his absence. Edmund Gurney.
• RECRUDENCY
  Recrudescence.
• INWROUGHT
  Wrought or worked in or among other things; worked into any fabric so as to from a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton. I"o, n.; pl. Ios. Etym:
• ROUGHWROUGHT
  Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
• INELABORATE
  Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.
• RECRUDESCENCE; RECRUDESCENCY
  Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission. Dunglison. (more info) Etym: 1. The state or condition of being recrudescent. A recrudescence of barbarism may condemn it to chronic poverty and waste. Duke of Argyll.
• OVERWROUGHT
  Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
• BEWROUGHT
  Embroidered. B. Jonson.
• MISWROUGHT
  Badly wrought. Bacon.