Synonyms of festooning

festooning

verb

present participle of festoon

as in adorning

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

for Valentine's Day the dance hall was festooned with a riot of red hearts and bow-wielding cupids

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of festooning

Her floor-skimming train shone like a thousand tiny diamonds, with champagne and silver sequins festooning every inch. —Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 7 Mar. 2026

One of the strongest examples of this new trend is French designer Llewellyn Chupin’s Ritual of Adornment collection, which offered a strong contrast between the blocky furniture silhouettes and the delicate ornamentation festooning them. —Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2025