embellish

embellish is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. verb. make more beautiful

   Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify

3. verb. add details to

   Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad

4. verb. make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

   "Decorate the room for the party"

   "beautify yourself for the special day"

   Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament

5. verb. be beautiful to look at

   "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

   Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace

Synonyms

beautify, fancify, prettify, aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad, adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, deck

Common word forms

embellished, embellisher, embellishes, embellishing, embellishment

Words from these letters

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