Word Meanings - EMBELLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: EMBELLISH

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMBELLISH)

• Adorn
• Beautify
• bedeck
• ornament
• decorate
• embellish
• deck
• garnish
• gild
• enrich
• Embroider
• Emboss
• emblazon
• Garnish
• Deck
• furnish
• adorn
• dress
• furbish
• beautify
• Trim
• Prepare
• order
• adjust
• clip
• arrange
• Varnish
• Glaze
• gloss
• disguise
• palliate
• sophisticate

Related words: (words related to EMBELLISH)

• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• GARNISHER
  One who, or that which, garnishes.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• EMBOSS
  1. To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like. Then
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• EMBROIDER
  To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.
• EMBELLISH
  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;
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.