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elaborate, inflated (overestimated), pretentious (ostentatious)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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Embellished — Embellish Em*bel lish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embellished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Embellishing}.] [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See {Beauty}.] To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
embellished — un·embellished; … English syllables
embellished ornamented ornate — decorated decorated adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly}; {bedaubed}; {bespectacled, monocled, spectacled}; {braided}; {brocaded,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
embellished — Synonyms and related words: adorned, advanced, affected, ameliorated, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beaded, beautified, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, bettered, bogus, brummagem, civilized,… … Moby Thesaurus
embellished — em·bel·lish || ɪm belɪʃ v. adorn, beautify, ornament, decorate … English contemporary dictionary
embellished — … Useful english dictionary
embellished the facts — made fictitious additions to the story, stretched the facts, fabricated, embroidered the facts … English contemporary dictionary
over-embellished — adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and many figures of speech. Syn: empurpled, flowery, ornate, purple. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
over-embellished — adjective excessively elaborate or showily expressed a writer of empurpled literature many purple passages an over embellished story of the fish that got away • Syn: ↑empurpled, ↑purple • Similar to: ↑rhetorical … Useful english dictionary
Edinburgh — EDINBURGH, a city, the seat of a university, and the metropolis of the kingdom of Scotland, situated in longitude 3° 10 30 (W.), and latitude 55° 57 29 (N.), about a mile (S. by W.) from Leith, 40 miles (S.S.W.) from Dundee, 42 (E. by N.) from … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland
