embellishment
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail
the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings
Types & categories
- elaboration hypernym
Related & opposite
- pad derivation
Sense 2 noun
a superfluous ornament
Types & categories
- decoration hypernym
- boulle hyponym
- cuspidation hyponym
- festoon hyponym
- filigree hyponym
- vermiculation hyponym
- flourish hyponym
Sense 3 noun
the act of adding extraneous decorations to something
Types & categories
- decoration hypernym
Related & opposite
- ornament derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pad |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | elaboration |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | decoration |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | boulle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cuspidation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | festoon |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | filigree |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | vermiculation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | flourish |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ornament |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | decoration |