English-Thai Dictionary

embellish

VT ประดับ  ตกแต่ง  adorn decorate ornament pra-bad

 

embellish with

PHRV ตกแต่ง ด้วย  ประดับประดา ด้วย  decorate with tok-teak-duai

 

embellish with

PHRV เพิ่ม ข้อมูล (ที่ ไม่ เป็นจริง  เพิ่ม รายละเอียด (ที่ ไม่ เป็นจริง  poem-kor-mun

 

embellishment

N การ ตกแต่ง  การประดับประดา  adornment decoration ornament kan-tok-taeng

 

embellishment

N เครื่องตกแต่ง  เครื่องประดับ  ornament kreang-tok-taeng

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBELLISH

v.t.[L. bellus, pretty. ] 1. To adorn; to beautify; to decorate; to make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; applied to persons or things. We embellish the person with rich apparel, a garden with shrubs and flowers, and style with metaphors.
2. To make graceful or elegant; as, to embellish manners.

 

EMBELLISHED

pp. Adorned; decorated; beautified.

 

EMBELLISHING

ppr. Adorning; decorating; adding grace, ornament or elegance to a person or thing.

 

EMBELLISHMENT

n.The act of adorning. 1. Ornament; decoration; any thing that adds beauty or elegance; that which renders any thing pleasing to the eye, or agreeable to the taste, in dress, furniture, manners, or in the fine arts. Rich dresses are embellishments of the person. Virtue is an embellishment of the mind, and liberal arts, the embellishments of society.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EMBELLISH

Em *bel "lish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embellished; p. pr. & vb. n.Embellishing. ] Etym: [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- (L. in ) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty. ]

 

Defn: 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; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn.

 

EMBELLISHER

EMBELLISHER Em *bel "lish *er, n.

 

Defn: One who embellishes.

 

EMBELLISHMENT

Em *bel "lish *ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. embellissement. ]

 

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 graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

embellish

em bel lish |emˈbeliSH əmˈbɛlɪʃ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (something ) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features: blue silk embellished with golden embroidery. • make (a statement or story ) more interesting or entertaining by adding extra details, esp. ones that are not true: she had real difficulty telling the truth because she liked to embellish things. DERIVATIVES em bel lish er noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French embelliss-, lengthened stem of embellir, based on bel ‘handsome, ’ from Latin bellus.

 

embellishment

em bel lish ment |emˈbeliSHmənt əmˈbɛlɪʃmənt | ▶noun a decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive: architectural embellishments. • a detail, esp. one that is not true, added to a statement or story to make it more interesting or entertaining. • the action of adding such details or features.

 

Oxford Dictionary

embellish

em |bel ¦lish |ɪmˈbɛlɪʃ, ɛm- | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make (something ) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features: blue silk embellished with golden embroidery. • make (a statement or story ) more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue: followers often embellish stories about their heroes. DERIVATIVES embellisher noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French embelliss-, lengthened stem of embellir, based on bel ‘handsome ’, from Latin bellus.

 

embellishment

em |bel ¦lish |ment ▶noun a decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive: architectural embellishments. • a detail, especially one that is untrue, added to a statement or story to make it more interesting. • [ mass noun ] the action of adding decorative details.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

embellish

embellish verb 1 weapons embellished with precious metal: decorate, adorn, ornament; beautify, enhance, grace; trim, garnish, gild; deck, bedeck, festoon, emblazon; informal tart up, pimp; literary bejewel, bedizen. 2 the legend was embellished in later retellings: elaborate, embroider, expand on, exaggerate.

 

embellishment

embellishment noun 1 architectural embellishments: decoration, ornamentation, adornment; beautification, enhancement, trimming, trim, garnishing, gilding. 2 we wanted the truth, not romantic embellishments: elaboration, addition, exaggeration.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

embellish

embellish verb 1 weapons were often embellished with precious metal: decorate, adorn, ornament, dress, dress up, furnish; beautify, enhance, enrich, grace; trim, garnish, gild, varnish; brighten up, ginger up; deck, bedeck, festoon, emblazon, bespangle; informal do up, do out, jazz up; Brit. informal tart up; literary bejewel, bedizen, caparison, furbelow, befrill. 2 the legend was embellished further by a visiting American academic: elaborate, embroider, colour, expand on, exaggerate, dress up, touch up, gild. ANTONYMS simplify.

 

embellishment

embellishment noun 1 the embellishments in medieval manuscripts: decoration, ornamentation, adornment; beautification, enhancement, trimming, trim, garnishing, gilding, frill, enrichment; varnishing, embroidery; decorating, embellishing, bedecking, festooning, emblazoning. 2 stripped of her embellishments, the core of hard facts was disappointingly small: elaboration, addition, exaggeration; digression, deviation.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

embellish

em bel lish /ɪmbélɪʃ /動詞 他動詞 1 «…で » 〈服 場所など 〉を美しく飾る «with » .2 (虚実をまじえて )〈話 文章 〉をおもしろくする ; 〈真実 〉を粉飾する ; 〈物事 〉を演出する .3 〈メロディなど 〉に装飾音を付ける .～ment 名詞 C 装飾物 ; U 飾ること ; 粉飾すること .