Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not elaborate; not wrought with care.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.
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- adjective Not
elaborate ;crude ;unfinished .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the account of Cain, which immediately succeeds, the narrative is inelaborate, casual, secondary; the dialogue is simple and touching.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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It is rather fully developed before the second subject enters; this, on the other hand, is hardly insinuated in its relative major before the rather inelaborate elaboration begins.
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The suite has an inelaborate prelude, which begins strongly and ends gracefully, showing unusual handling throughout.
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While the inelaborate appetizers were being served, and each one was ordering the meal, everybody, save Simanovsky, felt ill at ease and somehow constrained.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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The ancient Jlatues of Venua and Minerva, which exceed - ed, in beauty of exad proportion, any living bodiei, the work of triifnoiart; i.e. of haAy, (inelaborate nature.
The Plays of William Shakspeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations ... 1785
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