decorate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
2. (ambitransitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
3. (ambitransitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
4. (transitive) To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
5. (transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.

Adj

decorated, adorned

Synonyms

adorn

embellish

ornament

beautify

make beautiful

garnish

deck

bedeck

trim

grace

dress

👗

dress up

paint

emblazon

festoon

furnish

spruce up

arrange

deck out

dye

hang

illuminate

bejewel

array

prepare

award

coat

🧥

enamel

embroider

jewel

caparison

carve

set

confer a decoration

fix

fix up

fancify

cover

be embellished

improve

spangle

write

✍️

feel

feign

finish

fit

fit out

fold

fulfill

garb

go with

guerdon

honor

inspire

lace

layout

light up

make better

make good

make up

mark

modify

outfit

panel

paper

perk

plait

prank

prettify

prim

primp

prink

push

put in order

remodel

repair

rework

rise

set up

shirk

sidestep

spruce

steer clear of

tattoo

tint

titivate

tog

touch up

transform

upset

wallpaper

whiten

whitewash

work over

brighten up

doll up

gussy up

paint white

design

award a decoration to

award a mark of honor

render beautiful

give artificial beauty

art up

embrave

be white snow

accoutre

asume

adore

agree

alter

amend

animate

attire

avert

avoid

bedight

bedizen

bespangle

blazon

bleach

build up

celebrate

change

circumvent

clothe

color

colour

colours

convert

correct

cure

decorated

decoration

deploy

display

dispose

do

dodge

doll

do up

draw

duck

🦆

elaborate

elude

enchase

encrust

enrich

evade

Translations

décorer

orner

versieren

decorar

schmücken

tooien

decoreren

adornar

sieren

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English decorat (“adorned”), from Latin decorātus, perfect passive participle of decorō (“to adorn, distinguish, honor”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from decus (“ornament, grace, dignity, honor”, decor- in compounds), akin to decor (“elegance, grace, beauty, ornament”), from decet (“adorn, befit”).