overelaborate

baroque beautiful elegant embroidered fancy gaudy gilded glamorous lavish magnificent opulent rococo sparkling sumptuous

adorned aureate bedecked bright brilliant busy colored convoluted dazzling elaborate fine flamboyant flashy flaunting florid flowery fussy glitzy glossy high-wrought jeweled luscious meretricious ornamented ostentatious overdone pretentious resplendent rich showy splashy superficial tawdry variegated

dull offensive plain poor ugly unsophisticated

simple

embellish

aggrandize amplify color distend dramatize elaborate enhance enlarge expand falsify fudge heighten hyperbolize lie magnify overdo overemphasize overestimate overstate pad puff romanticize stretch

blow-up build up make federal case make mountain out of molehill overembellish play up spread on thick stretch the truth yeast

abridge compress condense contract curtail decrease diminish lessen lower reduce shorten shrink simplify