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.
  •improvement (noun)
  • furtherance,
  • correction,
  • gain,
  • advancement,
  • betterment,
  • progression,
  • improvement,
  • refinement,
  • renovation.
  •knickknack (noun)
  • whatnot,
  • conversation piece,
  • flummery,
  • whatnots.
  •molding (noun)
  • architectural ornaments.
  •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.
  •Other relevant words:
  • embellish,
  • abate,
  • addition,
  • caparison,
  • purple passage,
  • fringe,
  • cadence,
  • enlargement,
  • ricrac,
  • tchotchke,
  • empty talk,
  • luxury,
  • colouring,
  • deck out,
  • gewgaw,
  • run,
  • architecture,
  • envelop,
  • boastfulness,
  • adjunct,
  • cut,
  • frills,
  • Bedizenment,
  • rodomontade,
  • bragging,
  • curtail,
  • acciaccatura,
  • lushness,
  • figure of speech,
  • development,
  • flower arrangement,
  • bull,
  • tautology,
  • overlap,
  • grace note,
  • elegant variation,
  • bells and whistles,
  • Purfling,
  • grace,
  • tinsel,
  • drape,
  • hem,
  • enrich,
  • condense,
  • adorn,
  • bind,
  • superfluity,
  • inflation,
  • arabesque,
  • frou-frou,
  • seasoning,
  • bury,
  • bauble,
  • confine,
  • beauties,
  • prolixity,
  • exaltation,
  • decorative,
  • arrangement,
  • excess,
  • enclose,
  • Ornature,
  • Pralltriller,
  • clothe,
  • dress,
  • amelioration,
  • window dressing,
  • coloratura,
  • fancywork,
  • cosmetic,
  • turn,
  • padding,
  • piping,
  • overemphasis,
  • filling,
  • magniloquence,
  • color patterns,
  • romanticization,
  • maturation,
  • over-decoration,
  • decorate,
  • superfluousness,
  • redundancy,
  • roulade,
  • passage,
  • melioration,
  • fioritura,
  • lighten,
  • hot air,
  • luxuriance,
  • paraphernalia,
  • comprise,
  • jewelry,
  • curb,
  • pleonasm,
  • accompaniment,
  • color,
  • boule,
  • frippery,
  • appoggiatura,
  • ripening,
  • brighten,
  • buhl,
  • beautify,
  • featherbedding,
  • Emblazonry,
  • magnification,
  • Emblazonment,
  • edging,
  • stretch,
  • Embellisher,
  • evolution,
  • Beautifier,
  • shorten,
  • encompass,
  • floridness,
  • Puffery,
  • knick-knack,
  • duplication,
  • fat,
  • perfection,
  • extra,
  • cover,
  • verbosity,
  • foofaraw,
  • do up,
  • colors,
  • doll up,
  • cuspidation,
  • flight,
  • trapping,
  • incidental,
  • redundance,
  • boasting,
  • gasconade,
  • mordent,
  • division,
  • cadenza,
  • needlessness,
  • filigree,
  • Unnecessariness,
  • extravagance,
  • expletive.

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.