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embellishingadjective serving to add beautythe chef tends to overuse sprigs of parsley and other embellishing garnishes on dishes that don't need them adorning, beautifying, cosmetic, decorative, ornamental alluring, appealing, attractive, charming, delightful, glamorous(also glamourous), pleasing, prepossessingbeauteous, beautiful, bonny(also bonnie, chiefly British), comely, fair, gorgeous, handsome, lovely, pretty, stunningdetailed, elaborate, fancy, ornate functional, utilitarian embellishingverbpresent participle of embellishto add to the interest of by including made-up detailsthe story of the comic marriage proposal was embellished as it passed from one generation to the next in the family coloring, elaborating (on), embroidering, exaggerating, hyperbolizing, magnifying, padding, stretching dressing up, gussying upamplifying, enhancing, enlarging (on or upon), expanding, fleshing (out)fudging, hedgingoverdoing, overdrawing, overemphasizing, overplaying, overstatingemphasizing, playing up, stressingcaricaturingsatirizing belittling, minimizing, playing down, understating to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becomingthe walls of the French restaurant are embellished with scenes of Parisian life adorning, arraying, beautifying, bedecking, bedizening, blazoning, caparisoning, decking, decorating, doing, doing up, dolling up, draping, dressing, emblazing, embossing, enriching, fancifying, fancying up, festooning, garnishing, glitzing (up), gracing, gussying up, ornamenting, prettying (up), trimming accessorizing, dressing up, trapping, tricking (out)brightening, freshening, smartening, sprucing (up)bossing, chasingbraiding, embroidering, feathering, figuring, filigreeing, filleting, flouncing, frilling, fringing, furbelowing, garlanding, hanging, lacing, ribboning, swagging, wreathingappliquéing, gilding, paintingdiamonding, gemming, impearling, jeweling(or jewelling), pearlingredecorating, redoing blemishing, defacing, disfiguring, marring, scarring, spoiling simplifying, streamliningbaring, denuding, dismantling, displaying, divesting, exposing, revealing, stripping, uncoveringuglifying |