• (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
E·lab'o·ra·tive adjective Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.) , the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
elaborative 1. Productive from basic elements or sources and changeable into a more developed product. 2. Making more complex, intricate, or richer.