fancify
Make more ornate
Fancify means to make something fancier or more elaborate, often with a touch of irony about the effort: She fancified the plain cake with swirls of frosting and edible flowers.
The word suggests decoration or embellishment that may be unnecessary or excessive.
It belongs to a class of playful verbs formed by adding -ify to adjectives.
Add visual enhancements
- adornAdd beauty to
- beautifyMake more attractive
- enhanceIncrease in quality
- ornamentThing that beautifies
prettify · dress up · spruce up · jazz up · glamorize · bedeck · garnish · gild
decorate
Add visual enhancements
ornament · prettify · dress up · spruce up · jazz up · glamorize · bedeck · garnish · gild · festoon
sophisticated
Worldly and cultured
- refinedPurified or cultured
- polishedSmooth, refined, accomplished
- tastefulAesthetically appropriate and pleasing
chic · classy · graceful · stylish · sleek · luxurious · posh · upscale · swanky · ritzy
baroque
Excessively ornate or elaborate
- rococoExcessively elaborate in style
- gildedOverlaid with gold leaf
- filigreeDelicate twisted-wire ornamentation
florid · lavish · opulent · intricate · bejeweled · embossed · scrollwork · filigreed · overwrought · frilly
- improveimprove, enhance, better, refine, upgrade
- trick outtrick out, tricked out, soup up, pimp out, pimped out
fancifysimplify
Make less complex
strip · bare · streamline · strip down · denude
fanciful, fancied, fanciness, fancily, fancifully, fancifulness, fancified, fancifying