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Adorn vs Decorated - What's the difference?

adorn | decorated |

As verbs the difference between adorn and decorated

is that adorn is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while decorated is (decorate).

As a noun adorn

is (obsolete) adornment.

adorn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
    • a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
    a character adorned with every Christian grace
    a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
  • * Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
    • as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
  • * Goldsmith
    • At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

    Synonyms

    * beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See also

    Noun

  • (obsolete) adornment
    • (Spenser)

    Anagrams

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    decorated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (decorate)

    • decorate

    English

    Verb

    (decorat)
  • To furnish with decorations.
  • To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
  • (computing) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
    • It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * decorative

    Related terms

    * decorator * decoration

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