1. Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
   "The decorated Christmas tree sparkled with ornaments";
   - adorned

1. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
   "Decorate the room for the party";
   - adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify, fancify
    
2. Provide with decoration
   "decorate the windows";
   - dress
    
3. Serve to decorate and look nice
   "Flowers decorated the tables everywhere";
   - deck, adorn, grace, embellish, beautify
    
4. [Brit] Paint, wallpaper, or otherwise improve the appearance of interior walls and surfaces
   "They spent the weekend decorating the living room"
    
5. Award a mark of honour, such as a medal, to
   "He was decorated for his services in the military"

See also: bedaubed, bespectacled, brocaded, buttony, carbuncled, champlevé, clad, clinquant, cloisonné, clothed, crested, crocketed, embossed, fancy, feathered, feathery, frilled, frilly, fringed, gemmed, gilt-edged, inflamed, inlaid, inwrought, jeweled [US], jewelled [Brit, Cdn], mounted, paneled [N. Amer], panelled [Brit], plumed, plumy, raised, ruffled, sequined, spangled, spangly, spectacled, studded, tapestried, tasseled [US], tasselled [Brit, Cdn], tessellated, tinseled [US], tinselled, tinselly, topknotted, tricked-out, tufted, wainscoted, wainscotted

Type of: alter, arrange, be, change, exist, fete, fête, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], modify, reward, set up

Encyclopedia: Decorated