adorn

Speech parts

1. adorn - Noun

2. adorn - Adjective

3. adorn - Verb

Meaning

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

Adornment.

Adorned; decorated.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

grace decorate ornament beautify embellish deck invest clothe garland design style color dress varnish crested
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Antonyms

mar reduce damage strip discover corrupt
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Hypernyms

change fit alter modify outfit equip

Hyponyms

bard garland color dress braid smock

Related terms

ornate ornament ornamentation suborn

Phrases with the word

to adorn adorn unnecessarily de-adorn

Derivatives

adorned adorning

Anagrams

radon nardo andor andro Ardon Daron Doran Drona Nador norad rando Ronda Donar

Examples

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. Epictetus

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well. John Chrysostom

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Mary Wollstonecraft

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. William Hazlitt

For whom does the blind man's wife adorn herself? Spanish Proverb

Merit and glory never adorn a nightcap. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

adorkable adorkableness adorkably adorn oneself with borrowed plumes adorn unnecessarily adornable