▪ I. inelaborate, a.
(ɪnɪˈlæbərət)
[in-3. Cf. obs. F. inelaboré (1605 in Godef.).]
Not elaborate; not having much labour expended on it; simple or slight in workmanship.
| 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 60 Crasse and excrementitious humours about the forepart of their Brain, which should make their faces more inelaborate and confused. 1747 Warburton Shaks. Cymb. v. v. 165 (Jod.) What Shakespeare meant by ‘brief nature’, 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. |
Hence ineˈlaborately adv., in a way void of elaboration.
| 1824 Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 205 In regard to Herodotus, his style I consider as..the most simply and inelaborately harmonious, of any author in any language. |
▪ II. † ineˈlaborate, v. Obs. rare—0.
[f. in-2 + elaborate.]
= elaborate v.
| 1623 Cockeram, Inelaborate, to doe a thing curiously. |