embellish
Verb
- add details to
- be beautiful to look at
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- make more beautiful
- To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
- To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
- To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
Examples
- The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
- to embellish a story, the truth
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English embelishen, from Old French embellir, from em- + bel.
Synonyms
adorn, aggrandise, aggrandize, beautify, blow up, deck, decorate, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, fancify, grace, lard, ornament, pad, prettify
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
embellish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordembellish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
embellish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary