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Pronunciation: [ɛmbˈɛlɪʃmənt] (IPA)

Embellishment refers to the act of decorating or enhancing something in an excessive or ornamental manner. Synonyms for this word include adornment, decoration, ornamentation, enhancement, ornament, trimmings, frills, garnish, and beautification. Adornment and decoration refer to the addition of decorative elements to enhance the aesthetic appeal of something, while enhancement and ornamentation refer to the improvement or embellishment of something to make it more appealing or attractive. Trimmings and frills refer to the decorative elements that are added to something to give it a more elaborate appearance. Garnish and beautification refer to the addition of something to enhance or accentuate the beauty of something.

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What are the opposite words for embellishment?

Embroiders, exaggeration, flattery, or gilding the lily, are all examples of embellishments, which means to make something more attractive or interesting with additional decorative details. However, the opposite of embellishment would be to simplify, downplay, or reduce something to its bare essentials. The synonyms for this opposite would include words like plainness, simplicity, austerity, or non-decorative, all of which describe the idea of making something straightforward and unadorned. To remove embellishment would also mean to get rid of all the decorative elements and complexity, focusing on essential features and functional details, stripping away anything that camouflages or distracts from the original concept.

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Usage examples for Embellishment

Still, she mused, if he felt the need of emphatic embellishment to point the assertion of so simple a fact as that, what might he not do when an occasion out of the ordinary arose?
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
"There is no end of passages in Homer," he repeats, "which must creep unless they be lifted; yet in all such, all embellishment is out of the question.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Heaven knows how La Grange had related the tragic incident, or with what embellishment he had been pleased to adorn it.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever

Famous quotes with Embellishment

  • And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
    Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
    Charlie Watts
  • Black holes are not rare, and they are not an accidental embellishment of our Universe. They are a fundamental driving force of its evolution. They are a dominant source of energy. For every ounce of matter consumed, they yield more than ten times as much energy as the nuclear reactions of fusion and fission that cause our sun to shine and our hydrogen bombs to explode.
    Freeman Dyson
  • That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of twaddle and his penury of sense. He has mounted his hind legs and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck, to the capital edification of circumjacent fools and foolesses, fooling with their foolers. He has tossed off the top of his head and uttered himself in copious overflows of ghastly bosh. The ineffable dunce has nothing to say and says it—says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft. Therefore is the she fool enamored of the feel of his tongue in her ear to tickle her understanding. The limpid and spiritless vacuity of this intellectual jellyfish is in ludicrous contrast with the rude but robust mental activities that he came to quicken and inspire. Not only has he no thoughts, but no thinker. His lecture is mere verbal ditch-water—meaningless, trite and without coherence. It lacks even the nastiness that exalts and refines his verse. Moreover, it is obviously his own; he had not even the energy and independence to steal it. And so, with a knowledge that would equip and idiot to dispute with a cast-iron dog, and eloquence to qualify him for the duties of a caller on a hog-ranch, and an imagination adequate to the conception of a tom-cat, when fired by contemplation of a fiddle-string, this consummate and star-like youth, missing everywhere his heaven-appointed functions and offices, wanders about, posing as a statue of himself, and, like the sun-smitten image of Memnon, emitting meaningless murmurs in the blaze of women’s eyes. He makes me tired. And this gawky gowk has the divine effrontery to link his name with those of Swinburne, Rossetti and Morris—this dunghill he-hen would fly with eagles. He dares to set his tongue to the honored name of Keats. He is the leader, quoth’a, of a renaissance in art, this man who cannot draw—of a revival of letters, this man who cannot write! This little and looniest of a brotherhood of simpletons, whom the wicked wits of London, haling him dazed from his obscurity, have crowned and crucified as King of the Cranks, has accepted the distinction in stupid good faith and our foolish people take him at his word. Mr. Wilde is pinnacled upon a dazzling eminence but the earth still trembles to the dull thunder of the kicks that set him up.
    Oscar Wilde
  • Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand.
    Karen Lord

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