Synonyms of arrayed

arrayed 1 of 2

adjective

as in dressed

Related Words

• dressed
• decked
• bedecked
• adorned
• decorated
• ornamented
• trimmed
• garnished
• enriched
• embellished
• garish
• gaudy
• elaborate
• lacy
• showy
• beautified
• frilly
• flowery
• extreme
• intensified
• swank
• tawdry
• ostentatious
• glitzy
• bedaubed
• flashy
• loud
• garlanded
• laced
• wreathed
• fringed
• emblazoned
• heightened
• enhanced
• spectacular
• bejeweled
• pretentious
• embroidered
• chased
• embossed
• gilded
• flamboyant
• sequined
• extravagant
• ornate
• rococo
• bossed
• flounced
• baroque
• splashy
• arabesque
• bedizened
• overwrought
• florid
• gingerbread
• overdecorated
• gingerbreaded
• gingerbready
• fussy

Dissimilar Words

• plain
• severe
• unadorned
• austere
• stark
• naked
• exposed
• stripped
• bare
• uncovered
• simple
• modest
• denuded
• unassuming
• restrained
• subdued
• quiet
• unpretentious
• conservative
• unobtrusive
• tasteful
• muted
• understated
• toned-down

arrayed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of array

1

as in adorned

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming

a door arrayed for the holidays with a beautiful evergreen wreath

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adorned
• decorated
• draped
• ornamented
• dressed
• decked
• festooned
• bedecked
• graced
• trimmed
• painted
• caparisoned
• garnished
• enriched
• bedizened
• blazoned
• embellished
• beautified
• embossed
• gussied up
• dolled up
• emblazed
• prettied (up)
• did
• did up
• embroidered
• trapped
• accessorized
• fancified
• fancied up
• garlanded
• glitzed (up)
• brightened
• wreathed
• freshened
• ribboned
• tricked (out)
• chased
• fringed
• hung
• dressed up
• braided
• gilded
• filleted
• laced
• smartened
• bossed
• flounced
• spruced (up)
• figured
• filigreed
• feathered
• jeweled
• gemmed
• frilled
• swagged
• pearled
• appliquéd
• redecorated
• impearled
• furbelowed
• redid
• diamonded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• marred
• scarred
• displayed
• disfigured
• defaced
• exposed
• spoiled
• revealed
• simplified
• blemished
• stripped
• streamlined
• uncovered
• denuded
• dismantled
• divested
• bared
• uglified

2

as in clothed

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes

arrayed in a wedding dress that has been handed down in the family for generations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clothed
• dressed
• attired
• garbed
• costumed
• draped
• gowned
• robed
• bedecked
• wrapped
• garmented
• habited
• suited
• appareled
• enrobed
• caparisoned
• decked (out)
• toileted
• rigged (out)
• togged (up or out)
• got up
• dressed up
• vestured
• outfitted
• swathed
• furnished
• cloaked
• invested
• mantled
• did up
• equipped
• huddled
• frocked
• vested
• swaddled
• jacketed
• tailored
• accoutred
• uniformed
• enswathed
• dressed down
• happed
• habilitated
• bedighted
• underdressed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stripped
• undressed
• disrobed
• disarrayed
• uncovered
• denuded
• unclothed
• unveiled
• divested
• untrussed
• undraped

3

as in arranged

to put into a particular arrangement

arrayed his baseball cards in order of their rarity and consequent monetary value

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arranged
• classified
• organized
• ordered
• disposed
• ranged
• marshaled
• placed
• systematized
• codified
• laid out
• drew up
• groomed
• aligned
• lined
• displayed
• filed
• sequenced
• made up
• cued
• straightened (up)
• set
• prioritized
• lined up
• emplaced
• set out
• queued
• alphabetized
• mapped (out)
• hierarchized
• tidied (up)
• spruced (up)
• unscrambled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disordered
• upset
• disarranged
• deranged
• rumpled
• messed (up)
• mussed (up)
• disarrayed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of arrayed

Verb

American forces are arrayed across the Middle East, making other nations targets of Iran as the fighting has escalated after a breakdown in peace talks. — Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

The three machines arrayed before me are designed to capture every inch of a performer’s body—their facial expressions, their physical movements, the grain of their voice—and use this data to create an AI likeness. — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026

The forces arrayed against keeping a WNBA team in Connecticut, or anywhere in New England, proved to be too strong. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026

The two mothers stood together, eight small caskets arrayed in a semicircle before them. — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 9 May 2026

Intriguingly, the 140 selections on view, ranging from vases to books, Buddhist figurines to landscape painting, literati desk accessories to official portraiture, look nothing at all like the art favored by European aristocrats arrayed elsewhere in the Art Institute. — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026

The marks, which are sandwiched between towers once used to scout for armies and to allow archers and other artillery-throwers to fend off enemy incursions, are arrayed in a way that suggests they may have been left by a repeating dart-thrower called a polybolos. — Taylor Mitchell Brown, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026

The final design runs 28 solar panels, arrayed across a carbon fiber frame. — Omar Kardoudi april 05, New Atlas, 5 Apr. 2026

Music director Bowling, who doubles as pianist and conductor from the center of the stage, the eight other musicians and 20-plus actors arrayed around her, half-jokes how much her hands hurt from rehearsing the stride style that evolved from ragtime. — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026