Synonyms of caparisoning

caparisoning

verb

present participle of caparison

1

as in clothing

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes

used to seeing him in a T-shirt and jeans, we were startled by the sight of strapping youth caparisoned for the prom in a tuxedo

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clothing
• dressing
• appareling
• attiring
• decking (out)
• costuming
• rigging (out)
• vesturing
• garmenting
• habiting
• gowning
• garbing
• togging (up or out)
• getting up
• dressing up
• doing up
• wrapping
• robing
• draping
• suiting
• enrobing
• arraying
• bedecking
• toileting
• investing
• frocking
• habilitating
• enswathing
• jacketing
• furnishing
• dressing down
• cloaking
• outfitting
• mantling
• accoutring
• tailoring
• bedighting
• swaddling
• huddling
• vesting
• uniforming
• equipping
• swathing
• happing
• underdressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stripping
• undressing
• disrobing
• disarraying
• untrussing
• uncovering
• unclothing
• denuding
• unveiling
• divesting
• undraping

2

as in decorating

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

the state's rolling hills are even more becoming when they are caparisoned in the glorious colors of autumn

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decorating
• adorning
• draping
• trimming
• dressing
• ornamenting
• painting
• enriching
• doing up
• embellishing
• beautifying
• fancifying
• decking
• embossing
• emblazing
• dolling up
• prettying (up)
• bedizening
• garnishing
• gracing
• arraying
• blazoning
• festooning
• gussying up
• glitzing (up)
• fancying up
• bedecking
• doing
• tricking (out)
• trapping
• dressing up
• sprucing (up)
• embroidering
• brightening
• accessorizing
• freshening
• filigreeing
• chasing
• ribboning
• smartening
• braiding
• hanging
• swagging
• garlanding
• figuring
• frilling
• wreathing
• diamonding
• fringing
• flouncing
• jeweling
• filleting
• bossing
• furbelowing
• gilding
• impearling
• feathering
• lacing
• appliquéing
• redoing
• redecorating
• pearling
• gemming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• spoiling
• disfiguring
• simplifying
• streamlining
• marring
• displaying
• revealing
• scarring
• defacing
• exposing
• stripping
• dismantling
• uncovering
• blemishing
• baring
• denuding
• divesting
• uglifying