Overelaborate [adjective]

Definition of Overelaborate:

fancily decorated

Synonyms of Overelaborate:

● Beautiful

● Gilded

● Glamorous

● Lavish

● Sumptuous

● Sparkling

● Magnificent

● Opulent

● Elegant

● Fancy

● Baroque

● Rococo

● Gaudy

● Aureate

● Bright

● Brilliant

● Busy

● Colored

● Convoluted

● Dazzling

● Elaborate

● Fine

● Flamboyant

● Flashy

● Flaunting

● Florid

● Flowery

● Fussy

● Glossy

● Luscious

● Meretricious

● Ostentatious

● Overdone

● Pretentious

● Resplendent

● Rich

● Showy

● Splashy

● Superficial

● Tawdry

● Variegated

● Embroidered

● Adorned

● Glitzy

● High-wrought

● Jeweled

● Ornamented


Opposite/Antonyms of Overelaborate:

● Simple

● Poor

● Dull

● Ugly

● Plain

● Offensive

● Unsophisticated


Sentence/Example of Overelaborate:

We had had two meals, one of which was as totally unnecessary as the other was overelaborate.

"I see," said I—for Mr. Brisher is apt to overelaborate his jokes.

It is a work unique, perhaps, in its design, but entirely unfeeling and preposterous in its overelaborate decorations.

It was a Cosway; but a Cosway broadened and without a hint of genteel namby-pamby or overelaborate finesse.