beautify

Verb

Meaning

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

To become beautiful; to advance in beauty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

grace deck decorate ornament adorn embellish prettify fancify garland dress festoon array enhance decorated pretty

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Antonyms

uglify mar bend camber rend chemise

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Hypernyms

change better improve alter modify amend

Hyponyms

bard garland polish curry become color

Related terms

beautification beautifying beautifier beautifiable

Derivatives

beautified beautifying

Examples

When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance. Paul Goodman

To beautify life is to give it an object. José Martí

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful. Amit Ray

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. Joseph Conrad

I am an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. A graffiti artist beautifies walls; I beautify parkways and yards. I treat the garden as a piece of cloth and the plants and the trees are the embellishment of that cloth. You'd be surprised what soil can do if you let it be your canvas. Ron Finley

Close letter words and terms

beautifully scripted beautifully written beautifulness beautifying beautiless beautilessness