 embellished |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] excessively elaborate or showily expressed | |
| Synonyms: | over-embellished purple empurpled | |
| Examples: | "a writer of empurpled literature" "many purple passages" "speech embellished with classical quotations" "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" |
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| Related terms: | rhetorical | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] rich in decorative detail | |
| Synonyms: | ornamented ornate | |
| Related terms: | adorned | |
| Similar spelling: |
embellish embellishment embolism |
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