adornliterary

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

decorations or a decoration
decorationIt's time to put away the Christmas decorations.
ornamentationThe artifacts included a gold bracelet with beaded ornamentation.
adornmentShe wore no adornments except for a small watch.
embellishmentThe building is plain, avoiding all unnecessary embellishments.
trimmingI want a plain black cardigan with no trimmings.
trimI like that tan sofa with the bright blue trim.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Decorating or making something attractive
accessorize
adorn
beautification
beautify
bedeck
embellishment
festoon
flock
foliated
garland
ornament
ornamentation
ornate
over-glamorize
overdecorate
twiddly
undecorated
unembellished
window dressing
yarn bombing

Examples of adornment

adornment
He was the most outstanding in his lavish adornment and offerings.
The cotton textile appears to be in addition to and overlaying the agave fiber textiles and adornments that covered the interments.
The countryside was seen as a pretty adornment or a bitter enemy, rather than a nostalgic panacea.
These remains may represent the production of multi-component regalia, involving hide skinning and working, the production of bone/shell adornments, and other non-faunal crafting activities.
Our f lowers were beautiful, the only adornment in that barren room.
The location and adornment of windows could also respond to the reality of neighbourhood.
The next characteristic that would perhaps support the hypothesis that potbelly sculptures were used as a depiction of rulership is their adornment.
This conclusion is supported by the bone and shell data, since household production often included both utilitarian bone perforators and shell and bone adornments.
Continuing a tradition from earlier times, the community buried children with unique worked-shell adornments.
As the following example illustrates, natural level mappings gain their power from the fact that the set of adornments used is guard-tuned.
The extravagant ' ' adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree ' ' overshadows the middle-class comfort of the home.
Spring comes with new adornments; the nightingales in the garden sing a different song.
Lithics were used for this secondary reduction and to finish shell adornments for attachment to the textiles and hides.
The description of the horses itself ends with a reference to their adornment, not their distinction.
More formally, we define a notion of a set of adornments.
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