All high-wrought synonyms
high-wrought
H h adj high-wrought
- beautiful β A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
- gilded β covered or highlighted with gold or something of a golden color.
- glamorous β full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.
- lavish β expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- sumptuous β entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
- sparkling β to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- magnificent β making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
- opulent β characterized by or exhibiting opulence: an opulent suite.
- fancy β imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- baroque β Baroque architecture and art is an elaborate style of architecture and art that was popular in Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
- rococo β a style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etc.
- gaudy β brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
- aureate β covered with gold; gilded
- bright β A bright colour is strong and noticeable, and not dark.
- brilliant β A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- busy β A busy time is a period of time during which you have a lot of things to do.
- colored β Something that is colored a particular color is that color.
- convoluted β If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.
- dazzling β Something that is dazzling is very impressive or beautiful.
- fine β of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- flamboyant β strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flashy β sparkling or brilliant, especially in a superficial way or for the moment: a flashy performance.
- florid β reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.
- flowery β covered with or having many flowers.
- fussy β excessively busy with trifles; anxious or particular about petty details.
- glossy β having a shiny or lustrous surface.
- luscious β highly pleasing to the taste or smell: luscious peaches.
- meretricious β alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- ostentatious β characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
- overdone β past participle of overdo.
- pretentious β characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- resplendent β shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid: troops resplendent in white uniforms; resplendent virtues.
- rich β having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- showy β making an imposing display: showy flowers.
- splashy β making a splash or splashes.
- superficial β being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- tawdry β (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- variegated β varied in appearance or color; marked with patches or spots of different colors.
- adorned β to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments: garlands of flowers adorning their hair.
- bedecked β If a place is bedecked with flags or other ornaments, these things have been hung up to decorate it.
- glitzy β pretentiously or tastelessly showy: a glitzy gown.
- jeweled β a cut and polished precious stone; gem.
- ornamented β (of a character) highly embellished or ornate; altered by embellishment.
- overelaborate β excessively or fussily elaborate, ornate, detailed, etc.