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beautified |
beautifier |
beautiful |
beautiful people |
beautifully |
beautify
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| beauty consultant
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb beautify has 3 senses
- beautify(v = verb.change) embellish, fancify, prettify - make more beautiful; Array is one way to ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate
- beautify(v = verb.stative) adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace - be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" is one way to be
- beautify(v = verb.creation) adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun beautification1, noun beauty1
Antonym: uglify
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun beautification1, noun beauty1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
Derived forms noun beautification1, noun beauty1
Sample sentence:
They beautify the halls with holly
CIDE DICTIONARY
beautify, v. t. [Beauty + -fy.].
To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. [1913 Webster]
"The arts that beautify and polish life."
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Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.
beautify, v. i.
To become beautiful; to advance in beauty. Addison. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
beautify, v.tr. (-ies, -ied) make beautiful; adorn.
Derivative
beautification n. beautifier n.
THESAURUS
beautify
adorn, array, become one, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, cultivate, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, develop, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, evolve, fig out, finish, fix up, furbish, garnish, glamorize, grace, gussy up, mature, ornament, paint, perfect, polish, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, redecorate, redo, refine, refurbish, ripen, season, set off, set out, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trimROGET THESAURUS
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Beauty
VB be beautiful, shine, beam, bloom, become one, set off, grace, render beautiful, beautify, polish, burnish, gild, set out, snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.Ornament
VB ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp, ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize, smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain, garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank, trick out, fig out, deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array, begawd, titivate, dress, dress up, spangle, bespangle, powder, embroider, work, chase, emboss, fret, emblazon, illuminate, illustrate, become.
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