Synonyms of the word

frill

• n. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
• n. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
• n. A luxury.
• n. Something extraneous added for effect.
• v. (transitive) To make into a frill.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold.

adornment

• n. A decoration; that which adorns.
• n. The act of decorating.

decoration

• n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
• n. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of…
• n. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host.

falderol

• n. Alternative form of folderol.

flounce

• v. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
• v. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
• v. To decorate with a flounce.
• v. To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
• n. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.^W.
• n. The act of flouncing.

folderal

• n. Alternative spelling of folderol.

furbelow

• n. A ruffle, frill or flounce on clothing.
• n. A decorative piece of fabric, usually gathered or pleated.
• n. A small, showy ornamentation.
• v. (transitive) To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.

gimcrack

• adj. Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
• n. Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.

gimcrackery

• n. tastelessness.

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

ornament

• n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
• n. A Christmas tree decoration.
• n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
• v. To decorate.
• v. To add to.

ornamentation

• n. Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
• n. The act or process of decorating etc.

plate

• n. A flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
• n. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
• n. The contents of such a dish.
• n. A course at a meal.
• n. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities.
• n. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.
• n. A vehicle license plate.
• n. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating.
• n. A material covered with such a layer.
• n. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver.
• n. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell,…
• n. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
• n. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
• n. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page…
• n. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which…
• n. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".
• n. (baseball) Home plate.
• n. (geology) A tectonic plate.
• n. (historical) Plate armour.
• n. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
• n. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis…
• n. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
• n. (obsolete) A coin, usually a silver coin.
• n. (heraldic charge) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
• n. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
• n. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
• n. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name,…
• n. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of…
• n. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
• n. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
• n. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
• n. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally…
• n. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
• n. (music) A record, usually vinyl.
• v. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
• v. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
• v. To perform cunnilingus.
• v. (baseball) To score a run.
• v. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
• n. Precious metal, especially silver.

ruff

• n. A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia, Philomachus pugnax.
• n. Alternative spelling of ruffe a small freshwater fish; a pope.
• n. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan…
• n. Anything formed with plaits or flutings, like the frill.
• n. (obsolete) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
• n. (obsolete) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
• n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
• n. (engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
• n. A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
• v. To ruffle; to disorder.
• v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
• v. (hawking) To hit (the prey) without fixing it.
• n. (obsolete) A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
• v. (card games) To play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led.
• adj. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of rough.
• interj. The bark of a dog; woof.

ruffle

• n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
• n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
• n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
• n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
• v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
• v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
• v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
• v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
• v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
• v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
• v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
• v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

trumpery

• n. Worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.
• n. Nonsense.
• n. (obsolete) Deceit; fraud.
• adj. Gaudy but of no value.