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present participle of beautify.

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beautifying

ADJECTIVE

cultural

Synonyms

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artistic developmental

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adorning advancing beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching expanding glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting polishing promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

ADJECTIVE

fancy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

complicated decorative deluxe elegant frilly gaudy lavish ornate special sumptuous

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adorned baroque chichi custom decorated elaborate embellished garnished gingerbread rich rococo

WEAK

cushy fanciful florid froufrou intricate ostentatious resplendent showy spiffy unusual

Antonyms

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plain poor simple ugly

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unadorned

WEAK

unfancy unornamented

ADJECTIVE

ornamental

Synonyms

STRONGEST

exquisite ornate showy

STRONG

accessory fancy

WEAK

adorning attractive beautiful decking decorating delicate dressy elaborate embellishing enhancing festooned florid for show furbishing garnishing heightening luxurious setting off

Antonyms

WEAK

plain unembellished

NOUN

decoration

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ornament

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adornment designing elaboration enhancement enrichment flounce flourish frill froufrou furbelow garnish illumination improvement ornamentation spangle trimming

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bedecking bedizenment festooning garnishing redecorating

Antonyms

STRONG

decrease plainness

WEAK

eyesore

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He had moved from barracks to barracks, dragging on his brutifying military life.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Why should not this odious, and brutifying system be put an end to?

From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by Apess, William

They are filled with horror and compassion at the sight of poor men spending their blood in the quarrels of princes, and brutifying their sublime capabilities in the drudgery of unremitting labour.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

Little things that seem sordid, even brutifying to insular eyes, really arise from incompatible standards.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

It is necessary to have lived in the depths of the French provinces to form an idea of the four brutifying years which the young fellow spent in this fashion.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

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