HyperDic: over-embellished

English > 1 sense of the word over-embellished:
ADJECTIVEallover-embellished, empurpled, purpleexcessively elaborate or showily expressed
English > over-embellished: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningexcessively elaborate or showily expressed.
Example "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
Synonymsempurpled, purple
BroaderrhetoricalGiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
Spanishampuloso, florido, hinchado
Catalanampulós, florit, inflat

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