different between elaborate vs flamboyant

English

Etymology

1575, from Late Latin ?lab?r?tus (“worked out”), past participle of ?lab?r? (“to work out”), from ?- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.

Pronunciation

• Adjective: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA^(key): /??læb???t/
• Verb: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA^(key): /??læb??e?t/

Adjective

elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)

1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Translations

Verb

elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)

1. (transitive) to develop in detail or complexity
   • 1871, "Bismarck", All the Year Round (volume 5, page 129)

     […] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
2. (intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail

   What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?

   Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

Translations

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elabo?rate/

Verb

elaborate

1. adverbial present passive participle of elaborar

Italian

Adjective

elaborate

1. feminine plural of elaborato

Verb

elaborate

1. second-person plural present indicative of elaborare
2. second-person plural imperative of elaborare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of elaborare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.la.bo??ra?.te/, [e???äbo???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.la.bo?ra.te/, [?l?b?????t??]

Verb

?lab?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?lab?r?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /flam?b???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /flæm?b??(j)?nt/
• Hyphenation: flam?boy?ant
• Rhymes: -??.?nt

Adjective

flamboyant (comparative more flamboyant, superlative most flamboyant)

1. Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
   • 1902, G. K. Chesterton, The Optimism of Byron, in Twelve Types,

     When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.

   • 1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,

     But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] .

   • 1962 May 12, Douglas MacArthur, Duty, honor, country,

     The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.

2. (architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
   • 1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc, Chapter XIX: Avignon,

     S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.

   • 1911, Bruges, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,

     The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).

   • 1913, Abbey of Saint-Ouen, article in Catholic Encyclopedia,

     The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.

3. Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.

   Synonym: serpentine

Translations

Noun

flamboyant (plural flamboyants)

1. The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 45

     The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), present participle of flamboyer (“to flame, blaze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flamborjant/, [fl?mb?o???jan?d?] or IPA^(key): /flamboajant/, [fl?mb?o??jan?d?]

Adjective

flamboyant

1. flamboyant, magnificent, opulent

Inflection

Synonyms

• overdådig
• pragtfuld
• prægtig
• strålende

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl??.bwa.j??/

Verb

flamboyant

1. present participle of flamboyer

Adjective

flamboyant (feminine singular flamboyante, masculine plural flamboyants, feminine plural flamboyantes)

1. flaming
2. flamboyant

Further reading

• “flamboyant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From French flamboyant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [flãbo?a?jant]
• Hyphenation: flam?bo?yant

Adjective

flamboyant (comparative flamboyanter, superlative am flamboyantesten)

1. flamboyant

Declension

Further reading

• “flamboyant” in Duden online