- embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, purple - excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
Antonym: unrhetorical (indirect, via rhetorical)
- embellished, ornamented, ornate - rich in decorative detail
Antonyms: unadorned, undecorated (indirect, via adorned)
- embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise - add details to
--1 is one way to overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun embellishment1
They won't embellish the story
- deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
--2 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Holly flowers embellish the halls
- decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun embellishment3
They embellish the halls with holly
- beautify, embellish, prettify - make more beautiful
--4 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something