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单词 inelaborate
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inelaborateadj.

/ɪnɪˈlabərət/
Etymology: in- prefix4. Compare obsolete French inelaboré (1605 in Godefroy).
Not elaborate; not having much labour expended on it; simple or slight in workmanship.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill > not elaborately made
rustic1600
uncurious1605
incurious1615
rural1624
inelaborate1650
bush1851
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective]
nakedOE
simplea1382
meanc1450
rural1488
misorned1512
inornate?1518
barec1540
broad1588
bald1589
kersey1598
russet1598
unvarnisheda1616
unembellished1630
illaborate1631
severe1665
renable1674
small1678
unadorned1692
inelaborate1747
unlarded1748
chaste1753
uncoloured1845
minimalist1929
spare1965
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 60 Crasse and excrementitious humours about the forepart of their Brain, which should make their faces more inelaborate and confused.
1747 W. Warburton Wks. Shakespear VII. 350 (note) What Shakespear meant by Brief Nature; i.e. inelaborate, hasty, and careless as to the elegance of form, in respect of art.
1814 Jeffrey in Mem. Moore (1853) II. 16 One little piece of yours, however short and inelaborate.
1864 C. Clarke Box for Season I. 122 Miss Markby's style was decidedly inelaborate.

Derivatives

ineˈlaborately adv. in a way void of elaboration.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adverb]
aefauldlyOE
plainlyc1385
simply?c1400
nakedlya1535
simple1550
inornatelya1568
spruce?1605
dryly1635
chastely1815
unadornedly1820
inelaborately1846
in words of one syllable1922
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 205/2 In regard to Herodotus, his style I consider as..the most simply and inelaborately harmonious, of any author in any language.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

inelaboratev.

Etymology: < in- prefix3 + elaborate v.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
= elaborate v.
ΚΠ
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Inelaborate, to doe a thing curiously.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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