DECORATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decorated mean? 

• DECORATED (adjective)
  The adjective DECORATED has 1 sense:

1. provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

  Familiarity information: DECORATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECORATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

Synonyms:

adorned; decorated

Similar:

bedaubed (ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion)

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)

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)

 Context examples 

The corridors at Hurlstone have their walls largely decorated with trophies of old weapons.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These modifications give the decorated nanogels diverse physical and chemical properties.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

Emma had not to listen to such paradings again—to any so exclusively addressed to herself—so disgustingly decorated with a “dear Miss Woodhouse.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was brought out forward in a wide-margined, beautifully decorated volume that struck the holiday trade and sold like wildfire.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You should have seen the dining-room that day—how richly it was decorated, how brilliantly lit up!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

After synthesis in the ER, lysosomal enzymes are decorated with mannose-6-phosphate residues, which are recognized by mannose-6-phosphate receptors in the trans-Golgi network.

(Lysosome Assembly Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Some former denizen of the cabin had decorated its walls with illustrations torn from magazines and newspapers, and it was these illustrations that had held Sitka Charley's attention from the moment of our arrival two hours before.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Inside they were warm and dry, running in straight passages of varying length into the side of the hill, with smooth gray walls decorated with many excellent pictures done with charred sticks and representing the various animals of the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The latter and I would have gone out to fly the great kite; but that I had still no other clothes than the anything but ornamental garments with which I had been decorated on the first day, and which confined me to the house, except for an hour after dark, when my aunt, for my health's sake, paraded me up and down on the cliff outside, before going to bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)