fleshed out

1. 1.

   given substance or detail; completed

   “did not spring full-clad from his imagination”

   “a plan fleshed out with statistics and details”

   Synonymsfull-clad

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Questions about fleshed out

What does fleshed out mean?

fleshed out means "given substance or detail; completed".

What is another word for fleshed out?

Close synonyms include full-clad. 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 fleshed out a common word?

fleshed out 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.