Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decorate |
| Synonyms: | adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, brighten, deck, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enrich, festoon, fix up, garnish, gild, grace, ornamentalize, polish, prank, prettify, primp, prink, smarten, spruce up, trim |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
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| Main Entry: | baroque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decorative, especially architecture |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, convoluted, elaborate, embellished, extravagant, flamboyant, florid, gilt, grotesque, ornamented, ornate, overdecorated, rich, rococo |
| Antonyms: | plain, unadorned, undecorated |
| Main Entry: | elaborate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intricate; involved |
| Synonyms: | busy, careful, complex, complicated, decorated, detailed, elegant, embellished, exact, extensive, extravagant, fancy, fussy, garnished, high tech, highly wrought, imposing, knotty, labored, labyrinthine, luxurious, many-faceted, minute, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overworked, painstaking, perfected, plush, posh, precise, prodigious, refined, showy, skillful, sophisticated, studied, thorough, with all the extras, with all the options, with bells and whistles |
| Antonyms: | general, normal, plain, regular, simple, uncomplicated, unelaborate, uninvolved, usual |
| Main Entry: | elegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, tasteful |
| Synonyms: | affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, chic, choice, classic, clever, comely, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, dignified, effective, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, grand, handsome, ingenious, luxurious, majestic, modish, neat, nice, noble, opulent, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, polished, rare, recherché, refined, rich, select, simple, stately, stuffy, stylish, stylized, sumptuous, superior, turgid, well-bred |
| Antonyms: | crude, inelegant, rough, ugly, unfashionable, unrefined, unsophisticated, untasteful |
| Main Entry: | florid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very elaborate |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, garnished, grandiloquent, high-flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, pretentious, rhetorical, rich, sonorous |
| Notes: | floriated means 'decorated with flowers' while florid is 'blooming with flowers' |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, natural, plain, undecorated, unornate |
| Main Entry: | flowery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ornate, especially referring to speech or writing |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, embellished, euphemistic, euphuistic, fancy, figurative, florid, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, ornamented, overwrought, prolix, purple, redundant, rhetorical, rococo, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, plain, unembellished, unflowery, unornate |
| Main Entry: | ornate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fancily decorated |
| Synonyms: | adorned, aureate, baroque, beautiful, bedecked, bright, brilliant, busy, colored, convoluted, dazzling, elaborate, elegant, embroidered, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, fussy, gaudy, gilded, glamorous, glitzy, glossy, high-wrought, jeweled, lavish, luscious, magnificent, meretricious, opulent, ornamented, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, pretentious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, sparkling, splashy, sumptuous, superficial, tawdry, variegated |
| Notes: | ornamental means serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose, while ornate means elaborately or excessively decorated or adorned |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple |
| Main Entry: | ritzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elegant, luxurious |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, chic, choice, classy, cultivated, dignified, elaborate, expensive, exquisite, fancy, fine, grand, grandiose, handsome, lavish, lush, opulent, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, plush, posh, refined, rich, snazzy, stately, stuffy, sumptuous, swank |
| Main Entry: | painted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | finished |
| Synonyms: | coated, covered, decorated, enameled, ornamented, tinted, touched up |
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