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English adjective: over-embellished

1. over-embellished excessively elaborate or showily expressed


SamplesA writer of empurpled literature.
Many purple passages.
An over-embellished story of the fish that got away.


Synonymsempurpled, purple


Similarrhetorical


Antonymsunrhetorical









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