Adorn
[ə'dɔːn] or [ə'dɔrn]
Definition
(v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
(n.) Adornment.
(a.) Adorned; decorated.
Checker: Wyatt
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Embellish, decorate, beautify, ornament, deck, bedeck, emblazon, gild, trim, grace, crown, varnish, array, set out, set off, TRICK OUT.
Typist: Vivienne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Beautify, bedeck, ornament, decorate, embellish, deck, garnish, gild, enrich
ANT:Mar, spoil, deform, deface, disfigure, impoverish, denude, despoil, strip,bare, disembellish
Editor: Stephen
Definition
v.t. to deck or dress: to embellish.—n. (Spens.) adornment.—adj. (Milton) adorned ornate.—n. Adorn′ment ornament: decoration.
Inputed by Alex
Examples
- He, the noble, the warlike, the great in every quality that can adorn the mind and person of man; he is fitted to be the Protector of England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I wish continued success to the labours of the Royal Society, and that you may long adorn their chair; being, with the highest esteem, dear sir, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Such acts were not wanting to adorn the grim train that waited on the progress of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When we were in Rome, I thought you only cared for poetry and art, and the things that adorn life for us who are well off. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And I know that it belongs to your conscientious nature to try to become worthy of it, my dear Frederick, and to try to adorn it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He never was well dressed; but he took the hugest pains to adorn his big person, and passed many hours daily in that occupation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Its deep fidelity and goodness were not to be adorned by me or any man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She adorned and graced it so that it became another place. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hunchbacked, dwarfish, and doting, she was adorned like a barbarian queen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But here was the bride's carriage, adorned with ribbons and cockades. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As at present existing, the crown of England is a gold circle, adorned with pearls and precious stones, having alternately four Maltese crosses and four fleur-de-lis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now it was not only shut, but locked, and yesterday's mud still adorned the steps. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I saw those two together, in a bright perspective, such well-associated friends, each adorning the other so much! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Edited by Jacqueline