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Synonyms for beautify
ˈbyu təˌfaɪbeau·ti·fy

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  1. beautifyverb

    Synonyms:
    adorn, prettify, ornament, decorate

  2. beautifyverb

    To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

    Synonyms:
    ornament, prettify, adorn, decorate

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. beautify

    To embellish is to brighten and enliven by adding something that is not necessarily or very closely connected with that to which it is added; to illustrate is to add something so far like in kind as to cast a side-light upon the principal matter. An author embellishes his narrative with fine descriptions, the artist illustrates it with beautiful engravings, the binder gilds and decorates the volume. Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers. Deck and bedeck are commonly said of apparel; as, a mother bedecks her daughter with silk and jewels. To adorn and to ornament alike signify to add that which makes anything beautiful and attractive, but ornament is more exclusively on the material plane; as, the gateway was ornamented with delicate carving. Adorn is more lofty and spiritual, referring to a beauty which is not material, and can not be put on by ornaments or decorations, but seems in perfect harmony and unity with that to which it adds a grace; if we say, the gateway was adorned with beautiful carving, we imply a unity and loftiness of design such as ornamented can not express. We say of some admirable scholar or statesman, "he touched nothing that he did not adorn."

    At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
    His looks adorned the venerable place.

    Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 178.

    Synonyms:
    adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate, ornament

    Antonyms:
    deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoil

    Preposition:
    Adorn his temples with a coronet.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. beautify

    Synonyms:
    decorate, adorn, ornament, deck

    Antonyms:
    deform, spoil, mar, stain, deface, disfigure, befoul, soil, denude, bare, strip

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fancify, beautify, embellish, prettifyverb

    make more beautiful

    Synonyms:
    fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, embellish, lard, prettify, pad, dramatize

    Antonyms:
    uglify

  2. deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb

    be beautiful to look at

    "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

    Synonyms:
    fancify, grace, dramatise, bedeck, ornament, adorn, dump, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, invest, blow up, aggrandize, embroider, dress, lard, coldcock, embellish, prettify, bedight, floor, knock down, pad, dramatize

    Antonyms:
    uglify

  3. decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautifyverb

    make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

    "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

    Synonyms:
    fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, pad, dramatize, invest

    Antonyms:
    uglify

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. beautifyverb

    Synonyms:
    adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, BEDIZEN, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, TRICK OUT, set off, make beautiful

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. beautifyverb

    Synonyms:
    embellish, adorn, grace, garnish

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "beautify":

    prettify, embellish, glorify, whitewash

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How to use beautify in a sentence?

  1. John Henry Newman:

    To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

  2. Moon Jae-in:

    A state-issued history textbook will not only beautify dictatorship, but is itself dictatorship.

  3. Li Jianguo:

    At the same time, we just resolutely oppose anyone who tries to beautify the war of aggression or tries to drive back on history.

  4. Founder Rosie Akauola-Fine:

    It’s been used for centuries and it’s used to glisten the body to beautify the dancer.

  5. Amit Ray:

    Beautify your breath – beautify your life.


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