GRACING Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

gracing

verb

present participle of grace

as in adorning

to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming I hope that you will grace our gathering with your presence

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Recent Examples of gracing The style has been an Oscar red carpet staple for the better part of a decade, gracing the feet of big names like Emma Stone and Megan Thee Stallion. — Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2026 Black Thought reflected on how a young Questlove once had old Billboard music reviews gracing his bedroom walls. — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2026 And this season is sure to be a party with several celebratory anniversary shows (and late-night soirées), some big designer comebacks, and a bevy of celebrity names walking the runways and gracing the front rows. — Morgan Evans, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 Long gone are the days of A-list celebrities like James Gandolfini gracing Shi Stadium with their presence. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The annual Venice Film Festival has officially started, and A-listers have already begun gracing its red carpet in their best fashion. — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 2 Sep. 2026 Stonestreet and Ferguson, 50, spoke to The Guardian about why their characters, who began gracing TV screens in 2009, became fan favorites. — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 Among the summer-blooming flowers gracing its beds and trellises are poppies, dahlias, sunflowers, and clematis. — News Desk, Artforum, 20 Aug. 2026 Adam gets off on being asphyxiated, while Ingeborg has hypersensitive fingertips to the extent of them effectively being her erogenous zone; gracing her hands against the fabric that’s wrapped her lover during his orgasm seems to set off her own. — Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026

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Tourism picks up Whether arriving from within Chile or overseas, tourists are venturing into the remote, inhospitable areas of the Atacama to admire the millions of flowers adorning vast areas of the desert, stretching from the coast to the horizon.

— Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Growing up thousands of miles away from the Hollywood sign in Bratislava, Slovakia, ADÉLA spent her childhood studying American pop stars and had posters of Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande and Britney Spears adorning her bedroom walls.

— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026

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The person buried there is believed to have belonged to the Linear Pottery culture — named for the distinctive spiral and wavy patterns decorating its pottery.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The city is also bringing back its Halloween decorating contest to see which blocks can have the most Halloween spirit.

— Jack Springgate, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of decorating

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