embellished

The word “embellished” has 3 syllables: em-bel-lished

It's pronounced as /ɛmˈbɛlɪʃt/


What is synonym and antonym for embellished?

In the thesaurus, “embellished” has 281 synonyms and 113 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for embellished along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for embellished

  • abounding
  • absurd
  • accessorized
  • adorned
  • advantaged
  • ample
  • amplified
  • arabesque
  • arrayed
  • articulate
  • aureate
  • baroque
  • beautified
  • beautifying
  • bedaubed
  • bedecked
  • bedizened
  • bizarre
  • blazoned
  • blessed
  • blest
  • bloated
  • bombastic
  • bossed
  • braided
  • brightened
  • busy
  • caparisoned
  • careful
  • caricatured
  • chased
  • chic
  • chichi
  • classy
  • colored
  • complex
  • complicated
  • convoluted
  • copious
  • costly
  • cushy
  • custom
  • decked
  • declamatory
  • decorated
  • decorative
  • delineated
  • deluxe
  • demanding
  • depicted
  • detailed
  • diamonded
  • did
  • did up
  • difficult
  • diffuse
  • dolled up
  • draped
  • dressed
  • dressed up
  • elaborate
  • elaborated
  • elegant
  • eloquent
  • emblazed
  • embossed
  • embroidered
  • emphasized
  • engraved
  • enhanced
  • enlarged
  • enriched
  • euphemistic
  • euphuistic
  • exact
  • exaggerated
  • exemplified
  • exorbitant
  • expanded
  • expensive
  • exquisite
  • extensive
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • exuberant
  • fancied up
  • fancified
  • fanciful
  • fancy
  • farfetched
  • feathered
  • fecund
  • fertile
  • festooned
  • figurative
  • figured
  • filigreed
  • filleted
  • fine
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • florid
  • flounced
  • flowery
  • fluent
  • fortified
  • freshened
  • frilled
  • frilly
  • fringed
  • froufrou
  • fruitful
  • fudged
  • full
  • furbelowed
  • fussy
  • garish
  • garlanded
  • garnished
  • gaudy
  • gemmed
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • gingerbread
  • gingerbreaded
  • gingerbready
  • glib
  • glitzy
  • gorgeous
  • graced
  • grand
  • grandiloquent
  • grandiose
  • graphic
  • grotesque
  • gussied up
  • hanged
  • hard
  • hedged
  • heightened
  • high-class
  • high-flown
  • high-tech
  • highly wrought
  • hung
  • hyped-up
  • hyperbolic
  • hyperbolized
  • illuminated
  • impearled
  • implausible
  • imposing
  • impossible
  • in the chips
  • inflated
  • intensified
  • intricate
  • jeweled
  • jewelled
  • knotty
  • labored
  • labyrinthine
  • laced
  • lacy
  • lavish
  • loud
  • luscious
  • lush
  • luxurious
  • magnificent
  • magnified
  • magniloquent
  • many-faceted
  • minute
  • mouthy
  • oratorical
  • ornamental
  • ornamented
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • outlandish
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • overblown
  • overdecorated
  • overdid
  • overdone
  • overdrawn
  • overdrew
  • overemphasized
  • overplayed
  • overstated
  • overweening
  • overworked
  • overwrought
  • padded
  • painstaking
  • painted
  • palatial
  • pearled
  • perfected
  • pictured
  • played up
  • plenteous
  • plentiful
  • plush
  • pompous
  • portrayed
  • posh
  • precious
  • precise
  • preposterous
  • pretentious
  • priceless
  • privileged
  • prodigious
  • productive
  • prolific
  • prolix
  • purple
  • redecorated
  • redid
  • redundant
  • refined
  • resplendent
  • rhetorical
  • ribboned
  • rich
  • ritzy
  • rococo
  • satirized
  • showy
  • silver-tongued
  • skillful
  • smart
  • smartened
  • snazzy
  • sonorous
  • sophisticated
  • special
  • spectacular
  • spiffy
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • steep
  • stilted
  • stressed
  • stretched
  • studied
  • stylish
  • sumptuous
  • superb
  • swagged
  • swank
  • swanky
  • swell
  • swollen
  • tawdry
  • thorough
  • trapped
  • trimmed
  • tumescent
  • tumid
  • turgid
  • unbelievable
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unreasonable
  • unusual
  • valuable
  • verbose
  • vocal
  • voluble
  • well-endowed
  • windy
  • with all the extras
  • with all the options
  • with bells and whistles
  • wordy
  • wreathed
  • wrought

Antonyms for embellished

Meanings of embellished

  • verb
    1. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
    2. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.
  • adjective
    1. Having been made more attractive, compelling or interesting.

Example Sentences

  • The gown was embellished with intricate embroidery and beads.
  • His speech was embellished with humor to engage the audience.
  • The old manuscript was embellished with colorful illustrations.
  • She embellished the room with fresh flowers for the party.
  • The story he told was clearly embellished to make it more exciting.

On this page you'll find 394 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to embellished, such as: abounding, absurd, accessorized, adorned, advantaged, ample, amplified.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

lacy

  • adorned
  • arabesque
  • arrayed
  • baroque
  • beautified
  • bedaubed
  • bedecked
  • bedizened
  • bejeweled
  • bejewelled
  • bossed
  • chased
  • decked
  • decorated
  • dressed
  • elaborate
  • elegant
  • embellished
  • emblazoned
  • embossed
  • embroidered
  • enhanced
  • enriched
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fancy
  • filigree
  • fine
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • florid
  • flounced
  • flowery
  • frilly
  • fringed
  • fussy
  • garish
  • garlanded
  • garnished
  • gaudy
  • gauzy
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • gingerbread
  • gingerbreaded
  • gingerbready
  • glitzy
  • gossamer
  • heightened
  • intensified
  • laced
  • lacelike
  • loud
  • meshy
  • open
  • ornamented
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • overdecorated
  • overwrought
  • patterned
  • pretentious
  • rococo
  • sequined
  • sequinned
  • sheer
  • showy
  • spectacular
  • splashy
  • swank
  • swanky
  • tawdry
  • thin
  • transparent
  • trimmed
  • wreathed

padded

  • ambled
  • ambulated
  • amplified
  • bloated
  • bounced
  • caricatured
  • clumped
  • colored
  • cushioned
  • dressed up
  • elaborated
  • embellished
  • embroidered
  • emphasized
  • enhanced
  • enlarged
  • exaggerated
  • expanded
  • faltered
  • filled
  • footslogged
  • fudged
  • gimped
  • grandiose
  • gussied up
  • hedged
  • hiked
  • hobbled
  • hyped-up
  • hyperbolized
  • inflated
  • limped
  • lumbered
  • lurched
  • magnified
  • marched
  • minced
  • moseyed
  • nipped
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • overblown
  • overdid
  • overdone
  • overdrawn
  • overdrew
  • overemphasized
  • overplayed
  • overstated
  • overweening
  • paced
  • paraded
  • perambulated
  • peregrinated
  • played up
  • plodded
  • pounded
  • power walked
  • pranced
  • preposterous
  • promenaded
  • pussyfooted
  • quilted
  • rambled
  • sashayed
  • satirized
  • sauntered
  • scuffed
  • shambled
  • shuffled
  • staggered
  • stalked
  • stepped
  • stepped out
  • stomped
  • stressed
  • stretched
  • strode
  • strolled
  • strutted
  • stumbled
  • stumped
  • swaggered
  • tapped
  • tiptoed
  • toddled
  • traipsed
  • tramped
  • trampled
  • treaded
  • trekked
  • tripped
  • trod
  • tromped
  • trooped
  • trotted
  • trudged
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unreasonable
  • waddled
  • walked
  • wandered

magnified

  • a bit thick
  • abstract
  • accelerated
  • accentuated
  • acclaimed
  • acute
  • added to
  • adored
  • aggrandized
  • aggravated
  • almighty
  • amplified
  • applauded
  • artificial
  • augmented
  • aureate
  • belauded
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blistering
  • bloated
  • blown up
  • bombastic
  • boosted
  • bouncing
  • broadened
  • canonized
  • caricatural
  • caricatured
  • caroled
  • carolled
  • celebrated
  • chanted
  • cheered
  • cited
  • colored
  • commended
  • complimented
  • concentrated
  • consolidated
  • cracked up
  • deep
  • deepened
  • deified
  • developed
  • diffuse
  • dignified
  • dilated
  • distended
  • distorted
  • dreadful
  • dressed up
  • dropsical
  • elaborated
  • elevated
  • embellished
  • emblazoned
  • embroidered
  • emphasized
  • enforced
  • enhanced
  • enlarged
  • enlivened
  • ennobled
  • enshrined
  • enskied
  • enthroned
  • eulogized
  • euphuistic
  • exacerbated
  • exaggerated
  • exalted
  • excessive
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • expanded
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • extended
  • extolled
  • extravagant
  • fabricated
  • fabulous
  • false
  • fantastic
  • farfetched
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • ferocious
  • fierce
  • filled
  • filled out
  • flattered
  • flatulent
  • flowery
  • frightful
  • fudged
  • furious
  • fustian
  • ghastly
  • glorified
  • grandiloquent
  • grandiose
  • grown
  • gussied up
  • hailed
  • hammy
  • hard
  • harsh
  • hastened
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • hedged
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • highly colored
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • honored
  • hot-air
  • hymned
  • hyped-up
  • hyperbolic
  • hyperbolized
  • idealized
  • idolized
  • impossible
  • inflated
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • keen
  • lauded
  • lengthened
  • lifted
  • magniloquent
  • maximized
  • melodramatic
  • ostentatious
  • out of proportion
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • overblown
  • overdid
  • overdone
  • overdrawn
  • overdrew
  • overemphasized
  • overestimated
  • overkill
  • overplayed
  • overstated
  • overweening
  • overwrought
  • padded
  • played up
  • pompous
  • praised
  • preposterous
  • pretentious
  • profound
  • prolix
  • promoted
  • puffed
  • pumped-up
  • quickened
  • raised
  • ranting
  • recommended
  • redoubled
  • reenforced
  • reinforced
  • renowned
  • resounded
  • restrengthened
  • rhapsodical
  • rhapsodized
  • rhetorical
  • rigorous
  • romanticized
  • saluted
  • sanitized
  • satirized
  • schmaltzy
  • sensational
  • severe
  • sharpened
  • showy
  • spectacular
  • spread
  • steep
  • stepped up
  • strained
  • strengthened
  • stressed
  • stretched
  • stylized
  • sugarcoated
  • supplemented
  • surcharged
  • swollen
  • tall
  • terrible
  • thorough
  • too much
  • too-too
  • touted
  • tumescent
  • tumid
  • turgid
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unreasonable
  • upgraded
  • uplifted
  • vehement
  • verbose
  • vicious
  • violent
  • widened
  • windy
  • wordy
  • worshiped
  • worshipped

garlanded

  • adorned
  • balanced
  • bejeweled
  • bejewelled
  • bossed
  • cascaded
  • chased
  • dangled
  • decorated
  • delineated
  • depended
  • depicted
  • draped
  • embellished
  • emblazoned
  • embossed
  • embroidered
  • engraved
  • exemplified
  • fell
  • festooned
  • flounced
  • fringed
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • gold
  • gold-plated
  • golden
  • graphic
  • hanged
  • hooked
  • hung
  • illuminated
  • jutted
  • laced
  • mounted
  • overhung
  • pictured
  • pinned
  • poised
  • portrayed
  • projected
  • protruded
  • sequined
  • sequinned
  • slung
  • strung
  • stuck out
  • suspended
  • swung
  • tacked
  • wreathed
  • wrought

garnished

  • accessorized
  • adorned
  • arabesque
  • arrayed
  • aureate
  • baroque
  • beautified
  • beautifying
  • bedaubed
  • bedecked
  • bedizened
  • bejeweled
  • bejewelled
  • blazoned
  • bossed
  • braided
  • brightened
  • busy
  • caparisoned
  • careful
  • chased
  • chichi
  • complex
  • complicated
  • cushy
  • custom
  • decked
  • decorated
  • decorative
  • deluxe
  • detailed
  • diamonded
  • did
  • did up
  • dolled up
  • draped
  • dressed
  • dressed up
  • elaborate
  • elegant
  • embellished
  • emblazed
  • emblazoned
  • embossed
  • embroidered
  • enhanced
  • enriched
  • euphuistic
  • exact
  • extensive
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fancied up
  • fancified
  • fanciful
  • fancy
  • feathered
  • festooned
  • figurative
  • figured
  • filigreed
  • filleted
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • florid
  • flounced
  • flowery
  • freshened
  • frilled
  • frilly
  • fringed
  • froufrou
  • furbelowed
  • fussy
  • garish
  • garlanded
  • gaudy
  • gemmed
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • gingerbread
  • gingerbreaded
  • gingerbready
  • glitzy
  • graced
  • grandiloquent
  • gussied up
  • hanged
  • heightened
  • high-flown
  • high-tech
  • highly wrought
  • hung
  • impearled
  • imposing
  • intensified
  • intricate
  • jeweled
  • jewelled
  • knotty
  • labored
  • labyrinthine
  • laced
  • lacy
  • lavish
  • loud
  • luscious
  • luxurious
  • magniloquent
  • many-faceted
  • minute
  • ornamental
  • ornamented
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • overblown
  • overdecorated
  • overdone
  • overworked
  • overwrought
  • painstaking
  • painted
  • pearled
  • perfected
  • plush
  • posh
  • precise
  • pretentious
  • prodigious
  • redecorated
  • redid
  • refined
  • resplendent
  • rhetorical
  • ribboned
  • rich
  • rococo
  • sequined
  • sequinned
  • showy
  • skillful
  • smartened
  • sonorous
  • sophisticated
  • special
  • spectacular
  • spiffy
  • splashy
  • studied
  • sumptuous
  • swagged
  • swank
  • swanky
  • tawdry
  • thorough
  • trapped
  • trimmed
  • unusual
  • with all the extras
  • with all the options
  • with bells and whistles
  • wreathed

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