'Embellishment' definitions:
Definition of 'embellishment'
From: WordNet
noun
Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings" [syn: embellishment, embroidery]
noun
A superfluous ornament
noun
The act of adding extraneous decorations to something [syn: ornamentation, embellishment]
Definition of 'Embellishment'
From: GCIDE
- Embellishment \Em*bel"lish*ment\, n. [Cf. F. embellissement.]
- 1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. [1913 Webster]
- In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. [1913 Webster]
- The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'embellishment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acciaccatura,
- adjunct,
- adornment,
- appoggiatura,
- arabesque,
- arrangement,
- beauties,
- beautification,
- bedizenment,
- cadence,
- cadenza,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloratura,
- coloring,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- decor,
- decoration,
- development,
- division,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- elaboration,
- elegant variation,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- enhancement,
- evolution,
- exaggeration,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- filling,
- fine writing,
- fioritura,
- flight,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gilding,
- gingerbread,
- grace,
- grace note,
- hyperbole,
- illumination,
- incidental,
- incidental note,
- long mordent,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- luxury,
- maturation,
- mordent,
- needlessness,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- overstatement,
- padding,
- passage,
- payroll padding,
- perfection,
- pleonasm,
- pralltriller,
- prolixity,
- purple patches,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- refinement,
- ripening,
- roulade,
- run,
- seasoning,
- single mordent,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- tautology,
- tinsel,
- trim,
- trimming,
- turn,
- unnecessariness,
- verbosity,
- window dressing