embroidered

The word “embroidered” has 3 syllables: em-broid-ered

It's pronounced as /ɛmˈbrɔɪdərd/


What is synonym and antonym for embroidered?

In the thesaurus, “embroidered” has 58 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for embroidered

  • amplified
  • bejeweled
  • bejewelled
  • bloated
  • bossed
  • caricatured
  • chased
  • colored
  • dressed up
  • elaborated
  • embellished
  • emblazoned
  • embossed
  • emphasized
  • enhanced
  • enlarged
  • exaggerated
  • expanded
  • flounced
  • fringed
  • fudged
  • garlanded
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • gold
  • gold-plated
  • golden
  • grandiose
  • gussied up
  • hedged
  • hyped-up
  • hyperbolized
  • inflated
  • laced
  • magnified
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • overblown
  • overdid
  • overdone
  • overdrawn
  • overdrew
  • overemphasized
  • overplayed
  • overstated
  • overweening
  • padded
  • played up
  • preposterous
  • satirized
  • sequined
  • sequinned
  • stressed
  • stretched
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unreasonable
  • wreathed

Antonyms for embroidered

  • belittled
  • minimized
  • played down
  • realistic
  • reasonable
  • understated

Meanings of embroidered

  • verb
    1. To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.
    2. To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.

Example Sentences

  • She wore a beautifully embroidered blouse to the party.
  • The pillowcases were embroidered with delicate floral patterns.
  • He proudly displayed the flag he had embroidered by hand.
  • Her wedding dress was finely embroidered with silver thread.
  • The story he told was clearly embroidered to make it more exciting.

On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to embroidered, such as: amplified, bejeweled, bejewelled, belittled, bloated, bossed, caricatured.

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Related Words

fabricated

  • a bit thick
  • abstract
  • ad-libbed
  • affected
  • allegorical
  • amplified
  • artificial
  • assembled
  • assumed
  • baseless
  • began
  • beguiled
  • bogus
  • bouncing
  • built
  • bum
  • came up with
  • caricatural
  • carpentered
  • chimeric
  • chimerical
  • coined
  • combined
  • complete
  • completed
  • conceived
  • concocted
  • confected
  • constituted
  • constructed
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • cozened
  • crafted
  • created
  • cultivated
  • daydreamed
  • deceived
  • deceptive
  • defamed
  • deluded
  • designed
  • devised
  • dissembled
  • dissimulated
  • distorted
  • done
  • dreamed
  • dreamt
  • drummed up
  • duped
  • embroidered
  • envisaged
  • envisioned
  • equivocated
  • erected
  • ersatz
  • established
  • exalted
  • excessive
  • excogitated
  • extemporized
  • extravagant
  • fabled
  • fabulous
  • factitious
  • faked
  • fallacious
  • false
  • falsified
  • famed
  • fanciful
  • fantasized
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • farfetched
  • fashioned
  • fathered
  • faux
  • fibbed
  • fictional
  • fictitious
  • fooled
  • foreswore
  • forged
  • formed
  • forswore
  • foundationless
  • founded
  • framed
  • fraudulent
  • fudged
  • garbled
  • generated
  • gratuitous
  • groundless
  • gulled
  • hammered
  • hammy
  • handcrafted
  • hatched
  • hewed
  • highly colored
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • hoaxed
  • hoodwinked
  • hyperbolic
  • idle
  • illogical
  • imaginary
  • imagined
  • imitation
  • impossible
  • improvised
  • inaugurated
  • industrial
  • inflated
  • initiated
  • innovated
  • instituted
  • invented
  • jerry-built
  • kidded
  • knocked out
  • legendary
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • lied
  • machined
  • made
  • made up
  • made-up
  • magnified
  • make believe
  • make-believe
  • man-made
  • manufactured
  • mass-produced
  • mechanical
  • melodramatic
  • mendacious
  • minted
  • misguided
  • misinformed
  • misleading
  • misled
  • misreported
  • misrepresented
  • misstated
  • mock
  • molded
  • mythic
  • mythical
  • mythologic
  • mythological
  • nonnatural
  • not genuine
  • off-base
  • organized
  • originated
  • out of proportion
  • overblown
  • overdone
  • overestimated
  • overkill
  • overwrought
  • paltered
  • perjured
  • phony
  • pictured
  • pieced
  • plastic
  • prefabricated
  • prepared
  • preposterous
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretentious
  • prevaricated
  • processed
  • produced
  • pseudo
  • put together
  • put up
  • raised
  • reared
  • reassembled
  • rebuilt
  • reconstructed
  • redeveloped
  • reedified
  • refashioned
  • refined
  • remade
  • remanufactured
  • reproduction
  • retrofit
  • retrofitted
  • romanticized
  • schmaltzy
  • semilegendary
  • sensational
  • set up
  • sham
  • shaped
  • simulated
  • slandered
  • snowed
  • specious
  • spectacular
  • spurious
  • steep
  • storied
  • strained
  • structured
  • stylized
  • substitute
  • synthetic
  • tall
  • threw up
  • too much
  • too-too
  • took in
  • tooled
  • traduced
  • tricked
  • trumped up
  • trumped-up
  • uncalled-for
  • united
  • unjustified
  • unnatural
  • unproven
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unsubstantiated
  • untrue
  • untruthful
  • unwarranted
  • vain
  • visioned
  • visualized
  • without basis
  • without foundation

laced

  • adulterated
  • alternated
  • amalgamated
  • aromatized
  • assailed
  • assaulted
  • assimilated
  • attacked
  • attenuated
  • bashed
  • basted
  • batted
  • battered
  • beat
  • beat up on
  • befouled
  • befuddled
  • bejeweled
  • bejewelled
  • belabored
  • belted
  • beset
  • besotted
  • birched
  • blackjacked
  • blended
  • blent
  • bludgeoned
  • boozed up
  • bossed
  • boxed
  • braided
  • buffeted
  • bunged up
  • bust
  • busted
  • buzzed
  • caned
  • chased
  • cheapened
  • chopped
  • clobbered
  • clouted
  • clubbed
  • combined
  • commingled
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • counterfeited
  • cowhided
  • cracked
  • crapulent
  • crapulous
  • crocked
  • cudgeled
  • cudgelled
  • cuffed
  • curried
  • cut
  • debased
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • did
  • dilute
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • doctored
  • drubbed
  • drunk as a skunk
  • drunken
  • emblazoned
  • embodied
  • embossed
  • embroidered
  • enhanced
  • enlaced
  • enriched
  • entwined
  • envenomed
  • extended
  • faked
  • falsified
  • feeling no pain
  • fibbed
  • flagellated
  • flavored
  • flogged
  • flounced
  • flushed
  • flying
  • fouled
  • fringed
  • fuddled
  • fudged
  • fused
  • fustigated
  • garlanded
  • gilded
  • gilt
  • glazed
  • gold
  • gold-plated
  • golden
  • gored
  • groggy
  • half-seas over
  • hammered
  • hided
  • high
  • high as a kite
  • hit
  • horsewhipped
  • impaired
  • implicated
  • impoverished
  • incorporated
  • inebriate
  • inebriated
  • infected
  • inserted
  • integrated
  • interlaced
  • intermingled
  • interspersed
  • intertwined
  • intertwisted
  • interweaved
  • interwove
  • intoxicated
  • inweaved
  • inwove
  • joined
  • juiced
  • juxtaposed
  • knocked
  • lacerated
  • laid on
  • lambasted
  • lammed
  • lashed
  • lathered
  • leathered
  • licked
  • light
  • linked
  • liquored up
  • lit
  • loaded
  • maimed
  • mangled
  • manipulated
  • mauled
  • merged
  • mingled
  • misrepresented
  • mixed
  • moderated
  • muddled
  • mutilated
  • paddled
  • pasted
  • pelted
  • peppered
  • perfumed
  • pistol-whipped
  • plaited
  • plastered
  • platted
  • pleached
  • plied
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • pommeled
  • pommelled
  • potted
  • pounded
  • pummeled
  • pummelled
  • punched
  • punched out
  • qualified
  • raided
  • rawhided
  • reduced
  • rushed
  • salted
  • sauced
  • savored
  • savoured
  • scourged
  • seasoned
  • seeing double
  • sequined
  • sequinned
  • slammed
  • slapped
  • slated
  • slogged
  • sloshed
  • smacked
  • smashed
  • socked
  • sodden
  • soiled
  • sophisticated
  • spanked
  • spiced
  • spiked
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stewed
  • stoned
  • stormed
  • strapped
  • sullied
  • swatted
  • swiped
  • switched
  • tainted
  • tanked
  • tanned
  • tempered
  • thin
  • thinned
  • thrashed
  • threaded
  • three sheets to the wind
  • threshed
  • thumped
  • thwacked
  • tight
  • tipsy
  • totaled
  • tromped
  • twisted
  • under the influence
  • under-the-table
  • walloped
  • washy
  • wasted
  • watered down
  • watered-down
  • waterish
  • watery
  • weak
  • weakened
  • weaved
  • whacked
  • whaled
  • whammed
  • whapped
  • whipped
  • whomped
  • whopped
  • whupped
  • wishy-washy
  • worked over
  • wounded
  • wove
  • wreathed
  • writhed

lacy

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

darned


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