adorn

Other forms of adorn

past tense

adorned·

present participle

adorning·

third person

adorns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adorn

What does adorn mean?

adorn means "make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adorn?

adorn has 2 syllables: a-dorn. The stress falls on "dorn". In IPA it is /əˈdɔɹn/.

What is another word for adorn?

Close synonyms include decorate, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adorn a common word?

adorn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.