adorn

Verb

Verb Forms: adorned, adorning, adorns

To make more beautiful or attractive.
make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
be beautiful to look at
- "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

Noun

adornment

Adj

adorned; ornate

Examples

a character adorned with every Christian grace
A gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters.
a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
He used a blank tile to adorn his word, turning ’LATE’ into ’PLATE’.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.

Synonyms

beautify, clothe, deck, decorate, embellish, grace, invest, ornament, adorn, apparel, array, bedeck, betrim, deck out, decore, detail, do up, dress up, dub, garnish, prettify, pretty up

Scrabble Score: 6

adorn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
adorn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
adorn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

adorn: valid Words With Friends Word