Local English word record

over-embellished

adjective · 1 sense

excessively elaborate or showily expressed

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Examples

  • a writer of empurpled literature
  • many purple passages
  • an over-embellished story of the fish that got away

Word relationships

Synonyms

empurpled, purple

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