elaboration

Other forms of elaboration

plural

elaborations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elaboration

What does elaboration mean?

elaboration means "addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elaboration?

elaboration has 5 syllables: e-lab-o-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ɪˌlæbɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for elaboration?

Close synonyms include amplification, refinement, expansion, enlargement, elaborateness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elaboration a common word?

elaboration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with elaboration?

133 words rhyme with elaboration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.