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Adjective: decorated  'de-ku,rey-tid
  1. Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
    - adorned
Verb: decorate  'de-ku,reyt
  1. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
    "Decorate the room for the party";
    - adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
     
  2. Serve to decorate and look nice
    "Flowers decorated the tables everywhere";
    - deck, adorn, grace, embellish, beautify
     
  3. Award a mark of honour, such as a medal, to
    "He was decorated for his services in the military"
     
  4. Provide with decoration
    "decorate the windows";
    - dress

See also: beady, bedaubed, bespectacled, brocaded, buttony, carbuncled, champlevé, clad, clinquant, cloisonné, clothed, crested, crocketed, embossed, fancy, feathered, feathery, frilled, frilly, fringed, gemmed, gilt-edged, inflamed, inlaid, inwrought, jeweled [US], jewelled [Brit, Cdn], monocled, mounted, paneled, plumed, plumy, raised, ruffled, sequined, spangled, spangly, spectacled, studded, tapestried, tasseled [US], tasselled [Brit, Cdn], tessellated, tinseled [US], tinselled, tinselly, topknotted, tricked-out, tufted, wainscoted, wainscotted

Type of: alter, arrange, be, change, fete, fête, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], modify, reward, set up

Antonym: unadorned

Encyclopedia: Decorated

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