over-embellished

1. 1.

   excessively elaborate or showily expressed

   “a writer of empurpled literature”

   “many purple passages”

   “an over-embellished story of the fish that got away”

   Synonymsempurpledpurple

   Similarrhetorical

Questions about over-embellished

What does over-embellished mean?

over-embellished means "excessively elaborate or showily expressed".

How many syllables are in over-embellished?

over-embellished has 5 syllables: ove-r-em-bel-li-shed. The stress falls on "bel".

What is another word for over-embellished?

Close synonyms include empurpled, purple. 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 over-embellished a common word?

over-embellished is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.