beautify

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verb

beau·​ti·​fy ˈbyü-tə-ˌfī 

beautified; beautifying

transitive verb

: to make beautiful or add beauty to

tips on how to beautify your home

intransitive verb

: to grow beautiful

beautification

ˌbyü-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən 

noun

beautifier

ˈbyü-tə-ˌfī(-ə)r 

noun

beautifier

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noun

beau·​ti·​fi·​er ˈbyü-tə-ˌfīr 

-ˌfī-ər

plural -s

: one that beautifies

Synonyms of beautify

Verb

• decorate
• adorn

Choose the Right Synonym for beautify

adorn, decorate, ornament, embellish, beautify, deck, garnish mean to enhance the appearance of something by adding something unessential.

adorn implies an enhancing by something beautiful in itself.

a diamond necklace adorned her neck

decorate suggests relieving plainness or monotony by adding beauty of color or design.

decorate a birthday cake

ornament and embellish imply the adding of something extraneous, ornament stressing the heightening or setting off of the original,

a white house ornamented with green shutters

embellish often stressing the adding of superfluous or adventitious ornament.

embellish a page with floral borders

beautify adds to embellish a suggestion of counterbalancing plainness or ugliness.

will beautify the grounds with flower beds

deck implies the addition of something that contributes to gaiety, splendor, or showiness.

a house all decked out for Christmas

garnish suggests decorating with a small final touch and is used especially in referring to the serving of food.

an entrée garnished with parsley

Examples of beautify in a Sentence

Verb

Fresh flowers beautify every room.

volunteers beautified the roadside landscape by planting flowers

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Contractors would be responsible for sandblasting, caulking and resurfacing the pool basin, the president told reporters on May 7, as part of an initiative to beautify Washington before the country's 250th birthday. —Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 17 June 2026

Add Plants Plants will beautify your balcony, and caring for them will give you a daily reason to head outside. —Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026

Each version of the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop has the new Qualcomm Hexagon NPU on board, offering up to 80 TOPS of local AI performance for beautifying webcams, cleaning up audio, or performing local text and image generation. —Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 16 June 2026

Some of it was spurred by the World Cup, aiming to beautify downtown and provide things for tourists ahead of eight matches to be held in Atlanta, with the first at noon Monday. —Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 15 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Middle English bewtyfien, from beaute beauty + -fien -fy

First Known Use

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for beautify

• acidify
• alveoli
• antinomy
• areolae
• demystify
• detoxify
• disqualify
• diversify
• electrify
• exemplify
• fasciculi
• identify

Kids Definition

beautify

verb

beau·​ti·​fy ˈbyüt-ə-ˌfī 

beautified; beautifying

: to make beautiful or more beautiful

beautification

ˌbyüt-ə-fə-ˈkā-shən 

noun