adorn

[ uh-dawrn ]

/ əˈdɔrn /

verb (used with object)

to decorate or add beauty to, as by ornaments: garlands of flowers adorning their hair.

to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive, etc.; enhance: Piety adorned Abigail's character.

Origin of adorn

1325–75; Middle English adornen < Latin adōrnāre, equivalent to ad- ad- + ōrnāre to dress (see ornate); replacing late Middle English aourne < Middle French < Latin

SYNONYMS FOR adorn

1 beautify; deck, bedeck; bedizen, array.

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OTHER WORDS FROM adorn

a·dorn·er, noun a·dorn·ing·ly, adverb non·a·dorn·er, noun non·a·dorn·ing, adjective

o·ver·a·dorn, verb (used with object) o·ver·a·dorned, adjective pre·a·dorn, verb (used with object) re·a·dorn, verb (used with object) re·a·dorn·ing, adjective self-a·dorn·ing, adjective su·per·a·dorn, verb (used with object) un·a·dorned, adjective well-a·dorned, adjective

Words nearby adorn

adorable, adoral, adoration, adorbs, adore, adorn, adornment, adorno, adoula, adour, adowa

Example sentences from the Web for unadorned

Three were unadorned; one bore a wreath, red ribbons, and a name: Adolf Hitler.

The Real Monuments Men: The Coronation Chamber of Hitler |Robert Edsel |February 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It is one of the few pure, unadorned dramas to be regularly found in professional life.

On Match Day, the Nation’s Medical Students Discover Their Residencies |Casey Schwartz |March 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But here, it happens immediately, unadorned by the compassion that comes with years passing.

Great Weekend Reads |The Daily Beast |June 5, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The coats retail for $295; the Gap's unadorned women's classic trench sells for just $88.

Voilà, Le Gap! |Choire Sicha |September 24, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

But say you had a bunch of tomatoes, and were tired of slicing and sprinkling, and bowing low to the unadorned tomato.

The Only Food That Matters |Katie Workman |August 18, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
There is in the unadorned picture of any incident in the past a sort of hallowed character that no ornate frame can improve.

T. De Witt Talmage |T. De Witt Talmage
He is open to the convincing pleasures of the simple and unadorned life; he is satisfied with simple people.

Mrs. Falchion, Complete |Gilbert Parker
As one of your own poets has said, you appear 'when unadorned, adorned the most.'

Valeria |William Henry Withrow
The plain columns and unadorned pediments express strength and simplicity rather than beauty.

A Trip to the Orient |Robert Urie Jacob
Plain, unadorned Protestantism is most to the taste of the middle classes of Great Britain.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for unadorned (1 of 2)

unadorned

/ (ˌʌnəˈdɔːnd) /

adjective

not decorated; plain a bare unadorned style

British Dictionary definitions for unadorned (2 of 2)

adorn

/ (əˈdɔːn) /

verb (tr)

to decorate she adorned her hair with flowers

to increase the beauty, distinction, etc, of

Derived forms of adorn

adornment, noun

Word Origin for adorn

C14: via Old French from Latin adōrnāre, from ōrnāre to furnish, prepare

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