All embellishment synonyms

noun embellishment

• decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
• adornment — An adornment is something that is used to make a person or thing more beautiful.
• ornamentation — the act of ornamenting.
• beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
• trimming — the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
• colouring — The colouring of something is the colour or colours that it is.
• coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
• doodad — a decorative embellishment; trinket; bauble: a dress covered with doodads.
• elaboration — The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• self-enhancement — to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify: The candlelight enhanced her beauty.
• floridity — reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
• frill — a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose at the other; ruffle.
• fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
• garnish — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
• gilding — the application of gilt.
• gingerbread — a type of cake flavored with ginger and molasses.
• hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
• jazz — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
• ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
• ostentation — pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others.
• overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
• fandangle — elaborate ornament
• froufrou — elaborate decoration, as frills, ribbons, or ruffles, especially on women's clothing.
• icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
• aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
• aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.