beautify

Other forms of beautify

past tense or participle

beautified

present participle

beautifying·

third person

beautifies·

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 beautify

What does beautify mean?

beautify means "make more beautiful". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beautify?

beautify has 3 syllables: beau-ti-fy. The stress falls on "beau". In IPA it is /ˈbjutɪˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for beautify?

Close synonyms include fancify, embellish, prettify, deck, adorn. 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.

What is the opposite of beautify?

The recorded antonyms are uglify.

Is beautify a common word?

beautify 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.

What rhymes with beautify?

72 words rhyme with beautify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.