expatiate v add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing Usage(s) I spent part of the day of the debate watching a parade of talking heads expatiate endlessly on how dire was the need for Obama to go macho. You want to hear me expatiate on the plethora of Clintonians filling the Obama Administration? Don't have much of an opinion about that, either. He loves to talk (he does so with unselfconscious self-absorption), to expatiate in professorial detail (with the slightest hint of a lisp). Synonym(s) elaborate lucubrate exposit enlarge flesh out expand expound dilate Antonym(s) contract