What are some opposite words for beautify?
Antonyms for beautify
ˈbyu təˌfaɪbeau·ti·fy
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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.Antonyms:
deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoilSynonyms:
adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate, ornamentPreposition:
Adorn his temples with a coronet.
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fancify, beautify, embellish, prettifyverb
make more beautiful
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uglifySynonyms:
fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, embellish, lard, prettify, pad, dramatizedeck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb
be beautiful to look at
"Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
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uglifySynonyms:
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, dramatizedecorate, 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"
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uglifySynonyms:
fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, pad, dramatize, invest
How to use beautify in a sentence?
It’s been used for centuries and it’s used to glisten the body to beautify the dancer.
Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.
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.
Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
A state-issued history textbook will not only beautify dictatorship, but is itself dictatorship.
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