Definition for Embellishment:

• Act of embellishing or adorning: decoration: ornament.

Synonyms for Embellishment:

• n.

  •
  • overlay,
  • Patterning.
  •
  • content,
  • ad lib,
  • denouement,
  • aside,
  • contrivance,
  • action,
  • the credits,
  • act,
  • beautiful,
  • comic relief,
  • backstory.
  •act (noun)
  • embellishment.
  •adornment (noun)
  • beautifications,
  • fandangles.
  •beautification; decorating (noun)
  • exaggeration,
  • gingerbread,
  • elaboration,
  • flowery speech,
  • fuss,
  • hyperbole,
  • garnish,
  • Froufrou,
  • gilding,
  • ostentation,
  • overstatement,
  • Floridity,
  • icing on the cake,
  • Embroidering,
  • enhancement,
  • decoration,
  • doodad,
  • coloring,
  • embroidery.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • burlesque,
  • overdevelopment,
  • distortion,
  • overvaluation,
  • aggrandizement,
  • caricature,
  • overestimation.
  •figure (noun)
  • re presentations,
  • re-presentations,
  • re presentation.
  •fish story (noun)
  • trumpedup story,
  • incredible stories,
  • trumpedup stories,
  • cock and bull story,
  • farfetched stories,
  • trumped-up stories,
  • trumped up stories,
  • fish-story.
  •hyperbole (noun)
  • embroiderings,
  • hyper bole,
  • hyper boles,
  • co-loring,
  • laying on thick,
  • mountain out molehill,
  • hyper-boles,
  • co loring,
  • co-lorings,
  • laying thick,
  • co lorings,
  • laying it thick,
  • hyper-bole.
  •ornament (noun)
  • gingerbreads,
  • frou frou.
  •ornate speech or writing (noun)
  • grandiloquence,
  • ponderousness,
  • elaborateness,
  • fanciness,
  • loftiness,
  • rhetoric,
  • opulence,
  • Floweriness,
  • ornateness,
  • richness,
  • showiness,
  • volubility,
  • inflatedness,
  • splashiness,
  • flamboyance,
  • bravado,
  • double talk,
  • bombast,
  • eloquence.
  •overestimation (noun)
  • hyperbola,
  • over-appraisal.
  •overstatement (noun)
  • over-statements,
  • over statements,
  • over-statement,
  • over statement.
  •trappings (noun)
  • rigging,
  • Liveries,
  • livery.
  •trimming (noun)
  • rickracks.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • doily,
  • boss,
  • woodcarving,
  • scroll,
  • detailing,
  • fretwork,
  • daisy chain,
  • stencil,
  • green,
  • marquetry,
  • inlay,
  • brass,
  • streamer,
  • glitter,
  • decal,
  • wind chimes,
  • decor,
  • border,
  • festoon,
  • fob,
  • curlicue.
  •
  • mobile,
  • stud.
  •
  • accessory.
  •decoration
  • illumination.

Paraphrases for Embellishment:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ornament, decoration.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    beautification.

Antonyms for Embellishment:

• n.

  • beautification; decorating
    plainness, simplification, spoliation, disfigurement, injury.
  • Other antonyms:
    meiosis, understatement, stain, disparagement, minimizing, defacement, blot, belittlement, scar, spot.

Embellishment Sentence Examples:

• It was an extraordinary run, a rare specimen, a breaker of records, something to refer to in the future as a standard of measure and an embellishment of reminiscence; quite enough to keep the Idaho Legislature up all night.

• She asked him to come and look at some engravings which the Duchess had sent round for the embellishment of the dining - room.

Homophones for Embellishment:

• emplacement.

Hypernym for Embellishment:

• n.

  • artifact
    cuspidation, fillagree, filigree, buhl, flourish, boulle, boule, vermiculation, festoon, filagree.

Hyponym for Embellishment:

• n.

  • act
    decoration.
  • artifact
    ornament, ornamentation, decoration.
  • communication
    enlargement, expansion, elaboration.