| Main Entry: | elaboration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration |
Synonyms: |
amplification, comment, discussion, explanation |
| Main Entry: | amplification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase in size or effect |
Synonyms: |
addition, augmentation, boost, boosting, buildup, deepening, development, elaboration, enlargement, exaggeration, expansion, expatiation, extension, fleshing out, heightening, intensification, lengthening, magnification, padding, raising, strengthening, stretching, supplementing, upping, widening |
Antonyms: |
abridgement, compression, condensation, contraction, decrease, lessening, shortening |
| Main Entry: | complexity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complicatedness |
Synonyms: |
complication, convolution, elaboration, entanglement, intricacy, involvement, multiplicity, ramification |
Antonyms: |
clarity, directness, ease, obvious, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | decoration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beautification, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
adornment, beautifying, bedecking, bedizenment, designing, elaboration, enhancement, enrichment, festooning, flounce, flourish, frill, furbelow, garnish, garnishing, illumination, improvement, ornament, ornamentation, redecorating, spangle, trimming |
Antonyms: |
eyesore |
| Main Entry: | embellishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beautification; decorating |
Synonyms: |
adornment, coloring, decoration, doodad, elaboration, embroidering, embroidery, enhancement, enrichment, exaggeration, fandangle, floridity, flowery speech, frill, froufrou, fuss*, garnish, gilding, gingerbread, hyperbole, icing on the cake, jazz, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, overstatement |
Antonyms: |
disfigurement, injury, simplification, spoliation |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | finish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating; perfecting |
Synonyms: |
appearance, beauty, burnish, cultivation, culture, elaboration, glaze, grace, grain, lacquer, luster, patina, perfection, polish, refinement, shine, smoothness, surface, texture, veneer |
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition, growth |
Synonyms: |
access, accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, aggrandizement, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, burgeoning, cumulation, development, elaboration, enlargement, escalation, exaggeration, expansion, extension, gain, hike, incorporation, increment, inflation, intensification, maximization, merger, multiplication, optimization, raise, rise, spread, step-up, surge, swell, swelling, upgrade, upsurge, upturn, waxing |
Antonyms: |
decrease, depletion, diminishment, loss, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | ornamentation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adornment |
Synonyms: |
decoration, elaboration, embellishment, trimming |
| Main Entry: | hyperbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hog |