beautify

Meaning

1. (transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.
2. (intransitive, rare) To become beautiful.
3. (intransitive, rare) To make oneself beautiful.
4. Synonym of pretty-print.

Opposite of

blight, deface, disfigure, mar, uglify, minify

Synonyms

adorn

embellish

decorate

ornament

grace

deck

make beautiful

prettify

fancify

garnish

trim

array

dress

👗

bedeck

spruce up

deck out

embellishing

festoon

prink

doll up

make pretty

wish evil to

emblazon

enhance

be splendid

garb

bespangle

glamorize

bejewel

jewel

make up

oneself

bedizen

outfit

perk

polish

🇵🇱

prank

beautiful

prim

primp

become pretty

put on make-up

rectify

set

spruce

titivate

tog

beautification

window-dress

ameliorate

Translations

embellir

abbellire

décorer

verschönern

embellecer

embelezar

hermosear

adornare

ομορφαίνω

orner

καλλωπίζω

adornar

στολίζω

εξωραϊζω

decoro

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbjuː.tɪ.faɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: beutifien

In summary

From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).