beautify

/ˌbjudəˈfaɪ/

/ˈbjutɪfaɪ/

Other forms: beautified; beautifying; beautifies

Definitions of beautify

1. verb

   make more beautiful
   synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify

   antonyms:

   uglify

   make ugly

   types:

   groom, neaten

   care for one's external appearance

   curry, dress, groom

   give a neat appearance to

   dress up, window-dress

   make something appear superficially attractive

   slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivate

   make neat, smart, or trim

   polish, shine, smooth, smoothen

   make (a surface) shine

   become, suit

   enhance the appearance of

   clean, cleanse

   clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

   shave

   remove body hair with a razor

   comb, comb out, disentangle

   smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

   arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress, set

   arrange attractively

   gel, mousse

   apply a styling gel to

   pomade

   apply pomade to (hair)

   clean up

   make oneself clean, presentable or neat

   make up

   apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier

   manicure

   care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.

   barber

   perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of

   pedicure

   care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.

   do up, doll up, glam up, pretty up

   use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.

   slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce up

   dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion

   perfume, scent

   apply perfume to

   Simonise, Simonize

   polish with wax

   sleek, slick

   make slick or smooth

   buff, burnish, furbish

   polish and make shiny

   gloss

   give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

   type of:

   ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate

   make better
2. verb

   make more attractive by adding ornament, color, etc.
   “beautify yourself for the special day”

   synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament

   ornament

   be an ornament to

   types:

   wreathe

   decorate or deck with wreaths

   beset, encrust, incrust

   decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)

   braid

   decorate with braids or ribbons

   broider, embroider

   decorate with needlework

   stick

   cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface

   illustrate

   supply with illustrations

   garland

   adorn with bands of flowers or leaves

   fledge, flight

   decorate with feathers

   bespangle, spangle

   decorate with spangles

   foliate

   decorate with leaves

   flag

   decorate with flags

   bard, barde, caparison, dress up

   put a caparison on

   bead

   decorate by sewing beads onto

   pipe

   trim with piping

   applique

   sew on as a decoration

   gild the lily, paint the lily

   adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)

   vermiculate

   decorate with wavy or winding lines

   smock

   embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally

   hang

   decorate or furnish with something suspended

   prank

   dress or decorate showily or gaudily

   tinsel

   adorn with tinsel

   tart up

   decorate in a cheap and flashy way

   stucco

   decorate with stucco work

   redecorate

   redo the decoration of an apartment or house

   panel

   decorate with panels

   bejewel, jewel

   adorn or decorate with precious stones

   filet, fillet

   decorate with a lace of geometric designs

   scallop

   decorate an edge with scallops

   bedizen

   decorate tastelessly

   dress ship

   decorate a ship with flags

   dress, garnish, trim

   decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

   trim

   decorate, as with ornaments

   bedeck, bedight, deck

   decorate

   festoon

   decorate with strings of flowers

   enamel

   coat, inlay, or surface with enamel

   inlay

   decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal

   lacquer

   coat with lacquer

   begild, engild, gild

   decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

   illuminate

   add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)

   blazon, emblazon

   decorate with heraldic arms

   color, colour, emblazon

   decorate with colors

   fringe

   adorn with a fringe

   fret

   decorate with an interlaced design

   landscape

   embellish with plants

   monogram

   mark, print, or embroider with one’s initials or other letters

   faggot, fagot

   ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch

   purl

   embroider with gold or silver thread

   purl

   edge or border with gold or silver embroidery

   plume

   deck with a plume

   hatch

   inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

   damascene

   inlay metal with gold and silver

   japan

   coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan

   miniate, rubricate

   decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red

   miniate

   paint with red lead or vermilion

   type of:

   alter, change, modify

   cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
3. verb

   be beautiful to look at
   synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace

   types:

   ornament

   be an ornament to

   type of:

   be

   have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)