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.
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.
She had a flower adornment in her hair.
Specifically refers to decorative items or ornaments, often used for accessories like jewelry or trinkets.
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.
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.
She was adorned with beautiful adornments.
The action or process of making something more attractive by adding decoration.
Adding decorative or flowery elements to language, stories, or ideas.
Rhetoric or figure of speech; often used for embellishment in language.
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.
Traditional adornments are on display.
The adornment of the building took time.
その報告書は粉飾がひどい。
That report is full of adornment.
His writing often has excessive adornment.