bejeweled

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adjective

Covered in jewels, especially as decoration.

Less commonScrabble 22

Meanings

adjectivebejeweled (comparative more bejeweled, superlative most bejeweled)

comparative more bejeweled · superlative most bejeweled · alternative bejewelled

  1. Covered in jewels, especially as decoration.

    It is their silly pope and the rich, bejeweled bishops who are to blame and not the Catholic people.

    1990 February 11, S. Kelly, “How To Spell Respect”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 5
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    We tried to block the glare from the lunch-break o’clock sun as we watched this babe with bejeweled nails dancing with a shirtless dude in the desert while rapping.

    2019 December 28, Samantha Irby, “Lizzo: TIME's Entertainer of the Year”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020

    Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.

    2023 May 6, James Poniewozik, “Charles III Was Crowned King. But Can He Ever Be the Star?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 May 2023
verb

alternative bejewelled

  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bejewel

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁pi
  5. Proto-Germanic*bi
  6. Proto-Germanic*bi-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*bi-
  8. Old Englishbe-
  9. Middle Englishbi-
  10. Englishbe-
  11. Anglo-Normanjue
  12. Middle Englishjuel
  13. Englishjewel
  14. Englishbejewel
  15. Englishbejeweled

From bejewel + -ed.

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Translations

Catalan enjoiat
  • enjoiatcovered in jewels, especially as decoration
French bijouté, paré(e) de bijoux
  • bijoutécovered in jewels, especially as decoration
  • paré(e) de bijouxcovered in jewels, especially as decoration
Irish seodmhar
  • seodmharcovered in jewels, especially as decoration
Welsh gemog
  • gemogcovered in jewels, especially as decoration
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APA

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MLA

“bejeweled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bejeweled. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bejeweled,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bejeweled.

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