Synonyms for garnish
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Decorate — to decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish
decorate, adorn, dress, trim, array, embellish, grace, trick out informal, beautify, enrich, deck, varnish, bedeck, prettify, emblazon, bedizen formal, betrim dated
Other
furbish, garnishee
Noun
1. Decoration — something added for embellishment
decoration, embellishment, ornament, adornment, ornamentation, trimming, garniture, garnishment
Definitions
- v. 1
To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- n. 1
Something added for embellishment.
Related words
- Word family
- garnishee garnishment garment garniture
Choose the right word
Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- decorate Tom helped his mother decorate the Christmas tree.
- adorn Man adorns the place, the place doesn't adorn the man.
- embellish You're just seeking to embellish all this!
By length
- 4 letters
- deck1, trim1
- 5 letters
- dress1, grace1, array2, prank1, adorn2
- 6 letters
- enrich2, bedeck2, betrim
- 7 letters
- furnish2, varnish2, furbish2, bedizen3
- 8 letters
- decorate3, ornament3, trimming2, beautify3, emblazon3, prettify
- 9 letters
- embellish3, adornment3, garnishee, garniture
- 10 letters
- decoration4
- 11 letters
- garnishment3
- 13 letters
- ornamentation5, embellishment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (array2 = 2 syllables).