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 ( def ).

Other Words From

• o·ver·a·dorned adjective
• un·a·dorned adjective
• well-a·dorned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of adorned¹

adorn ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

There, he adorned her naked body in the necklaces they’d unearthed on the dig.

From Washington Post

Small images of global landmarks adorned the spine and caught my eye.

From Washington Post

Electron microscopy images of a sample from one patient revealed what look like intact virus particles adorned with a crown of spike proteins, a distinctive feature of coronaviruses.

From Science News

For this year’s Cranes and Colors theme, 1,000 paper cranes will adorn the 13-foot-tall tree that resides indoors, in the Grand Gallery.

From Washington Post

In Milford, the Mispillion Riverwalk is adorned with 18 model boats based on the Augusta, the yacht built at the Vinyard Shipyard in 1927.

From Washington Post

Missy, 37, is a petite, bespectacled gal with a green pixie cut, and her arms are adorned with tattoos.

From The Daily Beast

The story of the fire was certainly not complete, but it was at least coherent, and three of our halftones adorned Page 1.

From The Daily Beast

In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning.

From The Daily Beast

Fans will doubtless flock to Austin to see that dress and two others that adorned Vivien Leigh.

From The Daily Beast

Finally, we came to the ornately carved temple portal itself, adorned with an image of a snake to its side.

From The Daily Beast

Rouen is interesting for its antiquities, including several venerable and richly adorned Churches which I had no time to visit.

From Project Gutenberg

Beds, in those days, were warmed with copper warming pans, and nightcaps adorned the slumbering heads of both sexes.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of these like German pipes are made of porcelain, adorned with portraits (p. 149) and landscapes.

From Project Gutenberg

In the courts of princes and wealthy natives the vessels and tubes are lavishly adorned with precious metals.

From Project Gutenberg

Neither are there any terraces and verandahs adorned with elegant trellis-work and flowers, as there are in other warm countries.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• decorated
• embellished