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ADORNED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
Synonyms:
adorned; decorated
Classified under:
Similar:
tufted (having or adorned with tufts)
tricked-out (decorated in a particular way)
tasseled; tasselled (fringed or adorned with tassels)
tapestried (hung or decorated with tapestry)
studded (dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination)
paneled; wainscoted (fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting)
mounted (decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination)
tessellated (decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic)
inwrought (having a decorative pattern worked or woven in)
inlaid (adorned by inlays)
inflamed (adorned with tongues of flame)
gilt-edged (having gilded edges as the pages of a book)
fringed (having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips)
frilled; frilly; ruffled (having decorative ruffles or frills)
feathered; feathery; plumy (adorned with feathers or plumes)
crocketed ((of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage))
crested (bearing an heraldic device)
crested; topknotted; tufted ((of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination)
crested; plumed ((of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume)
clinquant; tinseled; tinselly (glittering with gold or silver)
champleve; cloisonne ((for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired)
carbuncled (set with carbuncles)
buttony (ornamented with many buttons)
brocaded; embossed; raised (embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery)
bespectacled; monocled; spectacled (wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass)
bedaubed (ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion)
beady; gemmed; jeweled; jewelled; sequined; spangled; spangly (covered with beads or jewels or sequins)
Also:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)
Antonym:
unadorned (not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb adorn
Context examples:
Then, unable to settle down to reading, I walked slowly round the room, examining the pictures of celebrated criminals with which every wall was adorned.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This declaration brought on a loud and overpowering reply, of which no part was very distinct, except the frequent exclamations, amounting almost to oaths, which adorned it, and Catherine was left, when it ended, with rather a strengthened belief of there being a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford, and the same happy conviction of her brother's comparative sobriety.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
A dignity was given to the contest by a rigid code of ceremony, just as the clash of mail-clad knights was prefaced and adorned by the calling of the heralds and the showing of blazoned shields.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had performed many eminent services for the crown, had great natural and acquired parts, adorned with integrity and honour; but so ill an ear for music, that his detractors reported, he had been often known to beat time in the wrong place; neither could his tutors, without extreme difficulty, teach him to demonstrate the most easy proposition in the mathematics.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A chanting cherub adorned the cover of the sugar bucket, and attempts to portray Romeo and Juliet supplied kindling for some time.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I could not see him for the tears which his earnestness and goodness, so adorned by, and so adorning, the perfect simplicity of his manner, brought into my eyes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There was brother Bartholomew with a crucifix of rare carved ivory, and brother Luke with a white-backed psalter adorned with golden bees, and brother Francis with the Slaying of the Innocents most daintily set forth upon vellum.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was giving orders for a toothpick-case for himself, and till its size, shape, and ornaments were determined, all of which, after examining and debating for a quarter of an hour over every toothpick-case in the shop, were finally arranged by his own inventive fancy, he had no leisure to bestow any other attention on the two ladies, than what was comprised in three or four very broad stares; a kind of notice which served to imprint on Elinor the remembrance of a person and face, of strong, natural, sterling insignificance, though adorned in the first style of fashion.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of the scene; it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the stream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered it.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
