Embellishment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EMBELLISHMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of embellishing
• a detail, especially one that is untrue, added to a statement or story to make it more interesting
• the action of adding decorative details
• a decorative detail or feature added to something to make it more attractive
• The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
• That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
• elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail
• a superfluous ornament
• the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of embellishing

Words related to EMBELLISHMENT

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Words that contain EMBELLISHMENT

embellishments23 overembellishment29 overembellishments30

How to use EMBELLISHMENT in a sentence

• They are manned by twenty or thirty oarsmen, and the embellishment, and conceits of ornament are superb.
• In the Old World, the wealth of states is freely expended in the embellishment of their capitals.
• They consist of details to which taste can lend no charm, and genius no embellishment.
• All these things her brother and Katy John had sketched for Stella with much verbal embellishment.
• Indeed, the recent embellishment of several mansions in Park Lane is already indicative of the improved taste of their distinguished occupants.
• Instead of thus consuming the fruit of his work on his own amusement, and the embellishment of his home, he prefers to make provision for his old age.
• The embellishment of the house is superfluous, for it is frequented as little as possible.
• The translations given below are as literal as possible, without embellishment, and are believed to be fairly accurate.
• The view of the Tiber gave an additional embellishment to this house, which was ornamented, internally, with the most perfect elegance.
• Vansittart is continually bringing home artistic treasures to add to its embellishment.
• Natural objects abound in features highly suggestive of embellishment and these are constantly employed in art.
• It is also a magnificent structure in extent and internal embellishment, though a very plain brick pile externally.
• The principal sitting-room of the royal suite, which was the chief glory of the Adriatic, had been stripped of every superfluous article of furniture or embellishment.
• In my ventures with concrete I have studied for grace in form but grace subordinated to stability, and have shunned embellishment.
• Embellishment for its own sake is the easiest and commonest sin against good art wherever art becomes self-conscious.
• But in both cases the time taken by the embellishment is taken from the time-value of the principal note.
• In two or three important particulars, we have a considerable advantage over this country in respect to this tasteful embellishment.
• The poets, from the time of Dryden, have gradually advanced in embellishment, and consequently departed from simplicity and ease.
• Whether as a fact, as an argument, or as an embellishment, it is all borrowed.
• These Memoirs might merit the honourable name of history from the truths contained in them, as I shall prefer truth to embellishment.
• Every one, indeed, who takes an active interest in the culture and embellishment of his garden, finds his pride in it and his love for it increase daily.
• As a writer, his style was plain and direct, with, no attempt at embellishment and no indication that strong emotions ever had much influence upon his pen.
• All these things, terrible to us, are to them but an ornament and an embellishment.
• It would seem that very shortly after the occupation of Ravenna by the imperialists in 540, the re-edification of the city and its splendid embellishment was begun.
• They are in the truest stile of Gothic embellishment.
• It is, however, no hearse of the modern kind, but a bier or couch with the usual embellishment of ivory and with covers of purple worked with gold.
• It is on the two-note embellishment F-natural G-flat shown in the last measure of that line.
• However the embellishment of this imaginary world might change, two qualities were constant in it.
• Along the regular connexion of the road are cottages, whose symmetry adds the charm of artificial embellishment to this luxuriant display of nature.
• The career of this empire has been so wild and wonderful that the historian can have no occasion to call in the aid of fancy for the embellishment of his narrative.

Similar words containing BELLISHM without suffix ent and without prefix em

embellishments23 overembellishme27 overembellishment29 overembellishments30

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