Synonyms for beautify
ˈbyu təˌfaɪbeau·ti·fy

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1. beautifyverb

   Synonyms:
   adorn, prettify, ornament, decorate

2. beautifyverb

   To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

   Synonyms:
   ornament, prettify, adorn, decorate

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate, ornament

   Antonyms:
   deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoil

   Preposition:
   Adorn his temples with a coronet.

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1. beautify

   Synonyms:
   decorate, adorn, ornament, deck

   Antonyms:
   deform, spoil, mar, stain, deface, disfigure, befoul, soil, denude, bare, strip

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1. fancify, beautify, embellish, prettifyverb

   make more beautiful

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, embellish, lard, prettify, pad, dramatize

   Antonyms:
   uglify

2. deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb

   be beautiful to look at

   "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

   Synonyms:
   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, dramatize

   Antonyms:
   uglify

3. decorate, 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"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, pad, dramatize, invest

   Antonyms:
   uglify

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1. beautifyverb

   Synonyms:
   adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, BEDIZEN, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, TRICK OUT, set off, make beautiful

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1. beautifyverb

   Synonyms:
   embellish, adorn, grace, garnish

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1. List of paraphrases for "beautify":

   prettify, embellish, glorify, whitewash

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1. Amit Ray:

   Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

2. John Henry Newman:

   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.

3. Moon Jae-in:

   A state-issued history textbook will not only beautify dictatorship, but is itself dictatorship.

4. Founder Rosie Akauola-Fine:

   It’s been used for centuries and it’s used to glisten the body to beautify the dancer.

5. Amit Ray:

   Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.