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OVER-EMBELLISHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does over-embellished mean?
• OVER-EMBELLISHED (adjective)
The adjective OVER-EMBELLISHED has 1 sense:
1. excessively elaborate or showily expressed
Familiarity information: OVER-EMBELLISHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OVER-EMBELLISHED (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively elaborate or showily expressed
Synonyms:
empurpled; over-embellished; purple
Context example:
an over-embellished story of the fish that got away
Similar:
rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)
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