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Defenition of the word embellishment

    • Defenition of the word embellishment

      • Something that embellishes.
      • The process of making or becoming more beautiful.
      • a superfluous ornament
      • the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
      • elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings"
      • elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail

    Synonyms for the word embellishment

      • adornment
      • aggrandizement
      • beautification
      • decoration
      • elaboration
      • embossing
      • embroidery
      • enhancement
      • enlargement
      • exaggeration
      • ornamentation
      • overdoing
      • trimming

    Similar words in the embellishment

      • embellishment
      • embellishment's
      • embellishments

    Hyponyms for the word embellishment

      • boule
      • boulle
      • buhl
      • cuspidation
      • festoon
      • filagree
      • filigree
      • fillagree
      • flourish
      • vermiculation

    Hypernyms for the word embellishment

      • decoration
      • elaboration
      • enlargement
      • expansion
      • ornament
      • ornamentation

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