adorned

[uh-dawrnd]

adjective

1. decorated or beautified, as by ornaments.

   On the road to Karachi we saw yellow and white taxis and convoys of garishly adorned trucks.

2. made more pleasing, impressive, etc.; enhanced.

   The university is located in Krakow, Poland, one of the most attractive and culturally adorned cities in Eastern Europe.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of adorn.

Other Word Forms

• overadorned adjective
• unadorned adjective
• well-adorned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of adorned¹

adorn ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Men, women, the elderly and the young all join in, adorned in eye-catching clothes and jewellery.

From BBC

In the land of the living, Heiyahas fully come into her own and is fashion-forward, adorned with gaudy jewelry, along with a denim jacket and miniskirt.

From Salon

Recurring motifs, including a trio of nondescript dogs that several workshop attendees adopted for their own mugs, adorned various Stringer originals strewn about Backhouse.

From Los Angeles Times

If you look around his workshop, you’ll spot several boxes adorned with red, white and blue striped ribbon.

From Los Angeles Times

Bird was immortalised by a statue in Barnsley in 2009, albeit the statue had to be lifted above ground level four years later because his raised umpiring finger would regularly be adorned with rude objects.

From BBC

Related Words

• decorated 
• embellished www.thesaurus.com