embellished adj

1 excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn: empurpled, over-embellished, purple]

2 rich in decorative detail [syn: ornamented, ornate]

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Verb

embellished

adorned, advanced, affected, ameliorated, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beaded, beautified, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, bettered, bogus, brummagem, civilized, colorable, colored, converted, counterfeit, counterfeited, cultivated, cultured, decked out, decorated, developed, distorted, dressed up, dummy, educated, embroidered, enhanced, enriched, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, feathered, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive, figurative, figured, florid, flowered, flowery, garbled, garnished, illegitimate, imitation, improved, jeweled, junky, lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, mock, ornamented, ornate, overcharged, overloaded, perfected, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, plumed, polished, pretended, pseudo, purple, put-on, quasi, queer, refined, reformed, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spangled, spangly, spurious, studded, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, transfigured, transformed, tricked out, trimmed, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped, wreathed