embellishment
/ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/
embellishment noun: an act of embellishing.
Noun
embellishment (countable and uncountable, plural embellishments)
- An act of embellishing.
- An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.
- Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Section 3, Chapter 1
- From this point of view all philosophy is idealism, an imaginative embellishment of scientific knowledge; and, sure enough, Engels prophesies the decline and extinction of philosophy.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
- Synonyms:
- adornment, decoration, ornament, garniture, garnish, garnishment, ornamentation
embellishment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
embellishment in Hindi
- embellishment, ornament
- अलंकरण alaṅkaraṇ
embellishment in Tamil
- சோடினை, அலங்கரிப்பு, அலங்காரம், ஜோடிப்பு
embellishment in Urdu
- embellishment, adornment
- زینت zīnat
embellishment in Malayalam
- adornment, deco-ration, ornamentation
- അലങ്കാരം, അലങ്കരണം, ഒപ്പന, നേപഥ്യം, പ്രസാധനം, അലങ്കരിക്കൽ
- addition, elaboration, exaggeration
- വിസ്തൃതമാക്കൽ, വിപുലമാക്കൽ, അത്യുക്തി, അതിവർണ്ണനം, അതികഥ, അതിശയം
More languagesFewer languages
- embellishment in Kannada
- ಶೃಂಗಾರ
- embellishment in Sanskrit
- भूषण bhūṣaṇa
Synonyms of embellishment
Forms of embellishment
| plural | embellishments |
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Origin of embellishment
From embellish + -ment.
Words formed from embellishment
Questions about embellishment
- What does embellishment mean?
- Embellishment means an act of embellishing.
- What is embellishment in Hindi?
- Embellishment in Hindi is अलंकरण (alaṅkaraṇ). See Embellishment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is embellishment?
- Embellishment is a noun.
- How do you pronounce embellishment?
- Embellishment is pronounced /ɪmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/.
- What is the plural of embellishment?
- The plural of embellishment is embellishments.
Words near embellishment in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: embellishment (page history and authors); अलंकरण (Hindi) (page history and authors); embellishment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); زینت (Urdu) (page history and authors); embellishment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); embellishment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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