gild the lily
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
make unnecessary additions to what is already complete
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- paint the lily
- pasttense
- gilded the lily
- presentparticiple
- gilding the lily
- thirdpersonsingular
- gilds the lily
- pastparticiple
- gilded the lily