embellished

embellished
Synonyms and related words:
adorned, advanced, affected, ameliorated, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beaded, beautified, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, bettered, bogus, brummagem, civilized, colorable, colored, converted, counterfeit, counterfeited, cultivated, cultured, decked out, decorated, developed, distorted, dressed up, dummy, educated, embroidered, enhanced, enriched, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, feathered, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive, figurative, figured, florid, flowered, flowery, garbled, garnished, illegitimate, imitation, improved, jeweled, junky, lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, mock, ornamented, ornate, overcharged, overloaded, perfected, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plumed, polished, pretended, pseudo, purple, put-on, quasi, queer, refined, reformed, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spangled, spangly, spurious, studded, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, transfigured, transformed, tricked out, trimmed, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wreathed

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  • embellished — index elaborate, inflated (overestimated), pretentious (ostentatious) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Embellished — Embellish Em*bel lish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embellished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Embellishing}.] [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See {Beauty}.] To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • embellished — un·embellished; …   English syllables

  • embellished ornamented ornate — decorated decorated adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly}; {bedaubed}; {bespectacled, monocled, spectacled}; {braided}; {brocaded,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • embellished — em·bel·lish || ɪm belɪʃ v. adorn, beautify, ornament, decorate …   English contemporary dictionary

  • embellished — …   Useful english dictionary

  • embellished the facts — made fictitious additions to the story, stretched the facts, fabricated, embroidered the facts …   English contemporary dictionary

  • over-embellished — adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and many figures of speech. Syn: empurpled, flowery, ornate, purple. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • over-embellished — adjective excessively elaborate or showily expressed a writer of empurpled literature many purple passages an over embellished story of the fish that got away • Syn: ↑empurpled, ↑purple • Similar to: ↑rhetorical …   Useful english dictionary

  • Edinburgh —    EDINBURGH, a city, the seat of a university, and the metropolis of the kingdom of Scotland, situated in longitude 3° 10 30 (W.), and latitude 55° 57 29 (N.), about a mile (S. by W.) from Leith, 40 miles (S.S.W.) from Dundee, 42 (E. by N.) from …   A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

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