PRETTIFY (prettified)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: prettified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does prettify mean? 

• PRETTIFY (verb)
  The verb PRETTIFY has 1 sense:

1. make more beautiful

  Familiarity information: PRETTIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRETTIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prettify    ... he / she / it prettifies   
Past simple: prettified   
Past participle: prettified   
-ing form: prettifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more beautiful

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify

Hypernyms (to "prettify" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prettify"):

groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)

curry; dress; groom (give a neat appearance to)

dress up; window-dress (make something appear superficially attractive)

slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce; spruce up; titivate; tittivate (make neat, smart, or trim)

polish; shine; smooth; smoothen (make (a surface) shine)

become; suit (enhance the appearance of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something