Word Meanings - DECORATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.

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• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• 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
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• ADORN
  Adorned; decorated. Milton.
• 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;
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SUIT
  1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which
• DECORATIVE
  Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness, n. Decorative art, fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather than the representation of objects or events.
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• EMBELLISHMENT
  1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• SUITOR
  1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
• REPRESENTATION
  1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• UNSUIT
  Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
• JESUITOCRACY
  Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. C. Kingsley.
• JESUITIC; JESUITICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.
• DISEMBELLISH
  To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
• JESUITESS
  One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
• JESUITRY
  Jesuitism; subtle argument. Carlyle.