Translation guide
The concept of adding beauty or decoration to something, often personal appearance or objects. Japanese expresses this through nouns for decoration, verbs for adorning, and descriptive terms for embellishment.
Referring to something that decorates or beautifies, especially in a physical or visual sense.
General term for decoration, ornamentation, or embellishment. Used for objects, interiors, and sometimes personal adornment.
この部屋には装飾が多すぎる。
There is too much adornment in this room.
Common word for decoration or ornament. Can be used for physical objects, accessories, or even figurative embellishment.
彼女は髪に花の飾りをつけていた。
She had a flower adornment in her hair.
Specifically refers to decorative items or ornaments, often used for accessories like jewelry or trinkets.
彼女は高価な装飾品を身につけている。
She wears expensive adornments.
Items worn for decoration, such as jewelry, hair ornaments, or accessories.
Loanword for accessories, widely used for personal adornment like necklaces, earrings, etc.
彼女はシンプルなアクセサリーを好む。
She prefers simple adornments.
Formal term for personal ornaments or accessories, including jewelry and small decorative items worn on the body.
Literally 'body decoration', a less common term for personal adornment, often used in literary or descriptive contexts.
彼女は美しい身飾りをまとっていた。
She was adorned with beautiful adornments.
The action or process of making something more attractive by adding decoration.
Nominalized form of 'to decorate', meaning the act of adorning. Simple and direct.
部屋を飾ることは楽しい。
Adorning the room is enjoyable.
More formal nominalization of 'to decorate', emphasizing the act of ornamentation.
建物の装飾することに時間がかかった。
The adornment of the building took time.
Adding decorative or flowery elements to language, stories, or ideas.
Rhetoric or figure of speech; often used for embellishment in language.
彼の話には修辞が多すぎる。
His story has too much adornment.
Embellishment or 'window dressing', often with a negative connotation of exaggeration or deception.
Over-decorating or gaudily adorning, can be used figuratively for excessive embellishment.
彼の文章は飾り立てることが多い。
His writing often has excessive adornment.
伝統的な装身具が展示されている。
Traditional adornments are on display.
その報告書は粉飾がひどい。
That report is full of adornment.