Word Meanings - BEAUTIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BEAUTIFY)

• Adorn
• Beautify
• bedeck
• ornament
• decorate
• embellish
• deck
• garnish
• gild
• enrich
• Garnish
• Deck
• furnish
• adorn
• dress
• furbish
• beautify

Related words: (words related to BEAUTIFY)

• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• GARNISHER
  One who, or that which, garnishes.
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• BEAUTIFY
  To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• DRESSY
  Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• FURBISH
  To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.
• GARNISH
  Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2. Smart. 3. Fetters. 4. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer. Fielding. Garnish bolt , a bolt
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• UNDERDRESSED
  Not dresses enough.