embellishment

Other forms of embellishment

plural

embellishments·

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 embellishment

What does embellishment mean?

embellishment means "elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in embellishment?

embellishment has 4 syllables: em-bel-lish-ment. The stress falls on "bel". In IPA it is /ɛmˈbɛlɪʃmənt/.

What is another word for embellishment?

Close synonyms include embroidery, ornamentation. 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 embellishment a common word?

embellishment 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.