decorated

When something is embellished or made more beautiful, it's decorated, like the elaborately decorated cookies you made your parents for their anniversary.

Besides things that are ornamented or adorned with decorations, you can also use this adjective for people who are honored, particularly soldiers who have served heroically. A decorated war veteran has received medals, awards, and honors from the military. Decorated soldiers often wear their medals on their uniforms. The Latin root of decorated is decus, "an ornament."

Definitions of decorated

1. adjective

   provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
   synonyms: adorned

   beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly

   covered with beads or jewels or sequins

   bedaubed

   ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion

   bespectacled, monocled, spectacled

   wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass

   brocaded, embossed, raised

   embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery

   buttony

   ornamented with many buttons

   carbuncled

   set with carbuncles

   champleve, cloisonne

   (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired

   clinquant, tinseled, tinselly

   glittering with gold or silver

   crested, plumed

   (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume

   crested, topknotted, tufted

   (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination

   crested

   bearing an heraldic device

   crocketed

   (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage)

   feathered, feathery, plumy

   adorned with feathers or plumes

   frilled, frilly, ruffled

   having decorative ruffles or frills

   fringed

   having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips

   gilt-edged

   having gilded edges as the pages of a book

   inflamed

   adorned with tongues of flame

   inlaid

   adorned by inlays

   inwrought

   having a decorative pattern worked or woven in

   tessellated

   decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic

   mounted

   decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination

   paneled, wainscoted

   fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting

   studded

   dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination

   tapestried

   hung or decorated with tapestry

   tasseled, tasselled

   fringed or adorned with tassels

   tricked-out

   decorated in a particular way

   tufted

   having or adorned with tufts

   clad, clothed

   wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

   fancy

   not plain; decorative or ornamented