Synonyms of dolling up

dolling up

verb

present participle of doll up

1

as in decorating

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

if you were to doll up those Shaker-style rooms, you'd ruin their simple elegance

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in dressing

to put on one's best or formal clothes

got all dolled up for the party

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dressing
• dressing up
• clothing
• costuming
• smartening (up)
• rigging (out)
• prinking
• primping
• togging (out or up)
• preening
• suiting
• duding (up)
• decking
• accessorizing
• apparelling
• robing
• attiring
• bedizening
• garbing
• appareling
• arraying
• investing
• bedecking
• caparisoning
• garmenting