ADORNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adorned mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADORNED (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)

Antonym:

unadorned (not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction)

 Context examples 

To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We found the apartment vacant; a large fire burning silently on the marble hearth, and wax candles shining in bright solitude, amid the exquisite flowers with which the tables were adorned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The surface of a nanoparticle can also be adorned with various targeting agents, such as antibodies, drugs, imaging agents, and reporters.

(Nanoparticle, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Then read this,” quoth Sir Nigel, pointing upwards to one of the many quarterings which adorned the wall over the fireplace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But she had seen enough of him to join in all the admiration of the others, and with an energy which always adorned her praise.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Its deep fidelity and goodness were not to be adorned by me or any man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The knife with which the crime had been committed was a curved Indian dagger, plucked down from a trophy of Oriental arms which adorned one of the walls.

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

There was a certain magic in the original conception, and he had adorned it with more magic of phrase and touch.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)