Embellished

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  embellished
       adj 1: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
              empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech
              embellished with classical quotations"; "an
              over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
              [syn: {empurpled}, {over-embellished}, {purple}]
       2: rich in decorative detail [syn: {ornamented}, {ornate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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