embellished
1embellished — index elaborate, inflated (overestimated), pretentious (ostentatious) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2Embellished — 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;… …
3embellished — un·embellished; …
4embellished 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,… …
5embellished — Synonyms and related words: adorned, advanced, affected, ameliorated, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beaded, beautified, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, bettered, bogus, brummagem, civilized,… …
6embellished — em·bel·lish || ɪm belɪʃ v. adorn, beautify, ornament, decorate …
7embellished — …
8embellished the facts — made fictitious additions to the story, stretched the facts, fabricated, embroidered the facts …
9over-embellished — adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and many figures of speech. Syn: empurpled, flowery, ornate, purple. [WordNet 1.5] …
10over-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 …
