Synonyms for ornament
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Decorate — to decorate
decorate, adorn, embellish, beautify, trim, grace, honor US, honour UK, charm, enrich, adore, apparel, array, deck, bedeck, commend, emblazon, prettify
Noun
1. Decoration — an element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns
decoration, ornamentation, adornment, embellishment, garnish, garniture, garnishment
Other
flower formal
Definitions
- v. 1
To decorate.
We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
- n. 1
An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
Related words
- Word family
- ornamental ornate ornamentation
- Phrases
- block ornament
Forms
- Plural
- ornaments → decorations, ornamentations, adornments, embellishments…
- Past participle
- ornamented
e.g. ornamented → decorated, adorned, embellished, beautified…
Choose the right word
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.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- trim Some people stay trim even without going to a gym.
- 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
- honor2, grace1, charm1, array2, adore2, adorn2
- 6 letters
- honour2, flower2, enrich2, bedeck2
- 7 letters
- apparel3, commend2, garnish2
- 8 letters
- decorate3, beautify3, emblazon3, prettify
- 9 letters
- embellish3, adornment3, garniture
- 10 letters
- decoration4
- 11 letters
- garnishment3
- 13 letters
- ornamentation5, embellishment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (honor2 = 2 syllables).