embellished
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Embellish \Em*bel"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embellished}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Embellishing}.] [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F.
embellir; pref. em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See
{Beauty}.]
To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to
adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with
shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or
style with metaphors.
Syn: To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish;
enrich; ornament; illustrate. See {Adorn}.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "embellished":
adorned, advanced, affected, ameliorated, apocryphal, artificial,
assumed, bastard, beaded, beautified, bedecked, bedizened,
befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, bettered, bogus,
brummagem, civilized, colorable, colored, converted, counterfeit,
counterfeited, cultivated, cultured, decked out, decorated,
developed, distorted, dressed up, dummy, educated, embroidered,
enhanced, enriched, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified,
fancy, feathered, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive,
figurative, figured, florid, flowered, flowery, garbled, garnished,
illegitimate, imitation, improved, jeweled, junky, lush, luxuriant,
make-believe, man-made, mock, ornamented, ornate, overcharged,
overloaded, perfected, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plumed,
polished, pretended, pseudo, purple, put-on, quasi, queer, refined,
reformed, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called,
soi-disant, spangled, spangly, spurious, studded, supposititious,
synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, transfigured, transformed,
tricked out, trimmed, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural,
unreal, warped, wreathed
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