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Definition of ornate in English: ornateadjective ɔːˈneɪtɔrˈneɪt 1Elaborately or highly decorated. an ornate wrought-iron railing Example sentencesExamples - Both the drawing room and dining room have ornate fireplaces and decorative cornicing with large windows looking out over the gardens.
- Park benches, small statues, decorative flower beds and ornate lamp-posts dotted the park at discreet distances from each other.
- The decoration was much more ornate than had been seen on most houses, even exquisite manors like the Big House and the Roscoe House.
- Moreover, the design is asymmetrical: Each side is different from the other, which makes the ornate decoration look even more exotic.
- So far they have dreamed up murals to decorate wasteland, ornate gates for a park and colourful name signs at an estate in Farnworth where streets are named after flowers.
- But these are no ordinary bridges they are the most elaborate bridges you have ever seen with ornate statues and balustrades, turrets and towers.
- Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
- They have been found before but rarely with such ornate decoration and never in South Lakeland.
- These restaurants are elegant and charming, often with ornate decorations and some of the best food in the city.
- The Baroque churches of Rome were imitated throughout Europe, their ornate altars enclosing a single painting or sculptural group providing a model for many years.
- Across the hall is a spacious drawing room with a large bay window, ornate marble fireplace, decorative plaster coving and ceiling rose.
- There they even have an exquisite Chess Room, filled with ornate and decorative sets from around the world, all gifted by foreign delegations.
- While poster art continued to prosper, the ornate details of Art Nouveau vanished.
- Most of the frescoes on the ceiling are gone, but there are ornate chandeliers, and putti attend the plaster reliefs above.
- Using a soft brush attachment she slowly cleans the ornate, rococo gilt frame surrounding a magnificent portrait by George Romney.
- Such high ceilings are everywhere - with more long corridors, elaborate and ornate walls and works of art on display.
- The settings range from a stormy sea to a bus stop; all verge on dizzying unreadability due to ornate decorative patterning.
- Wrought iron, often in ornate patterns, decorated many public buildings, bridges, and the verandahs of many homes.
- Now, people are picking elaborate color schemes and ornate frames.
- The rest of our time is spent in silence, until we arrive at an ornate door decorated with cranes and dragons.
Synonyms elaborate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, over-elaborate, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, baroque, rococo, florid, wedding-cake, gingerbread informal flash, flashy - 1.1 (of literary style) using unusual words and complex constructions.
peculiarly ornate and metaphorical language Example sentencesExamples - Just as this statue in abandoning the straight line suggests movement and grace, the speaker too should favour an ornate style and introduce grace and variety.
- Linguistic style: Someone may write in an ornate style, speak in a laconic style, and have an aggressive style when arguing.
- His German epic entitled Parzifal is a massive literary production and was highly ornate in style.
- As a consequence, these genres do not strive to show events in their experiential immediacy and do not use an excessively ornate style of presentation.
- The style is ornate, lyrical, and sensual, perhaps too much so for English tastes, as the Quartet tends to be more highly regarded abroad than in Britain.
Synonyms elaborate, over-elaborate, flowery, florid, flamboyant grandiose, pompous, pretentious, affected, high-flown, high-sounding, orotund, fulsome, magniloquent, grandiloquent, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, laboured, strained, overwrought, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, stilted, turgid, inflated informal highfalutin, purple rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated - 1.2 (of musical composition or performance) using many ornaments such as grace notes and trills.
Example sentencesExamples - Where Brubeck does fall down is in his overly ornate arrangements, all painstakingly constructed to seemingly draw as many parallels with classical music as possible.
- On the plus side was the intriguingly ornate solo piano part, with florid additions, one may speculate, to compensate for the thinner strings.
- Evolving melodies over harmonic/rhythmic ostinatos; ornate melodies over drones - do these count as techniques?
- David Kuebler brings a heroic touch to Nerone, and copes well with Handel's ornate divisions.
- On the other hand, Vivaldi's ornate writing for solo voices is much in evidence.
- The other singers are specialists in the Baroque repertoire, and are unfazed by Vivaldi's ornate and virtuosic writing.
- It occurs in all musical forms, from the first antler beaten against a taut animal skin to the most ornate symphony.
Derivatives adverb ɔːˈneɪtliɔrˈneɪtli It's Spanish-style front offices contain a cavernous, ornately designed room that once served as a Masonic lodge. Example sentencesExamples - In 1628, the ornately carved and heavily gunned ship had sunk - after less than a mile of her maiden voyage.
- The artwork here is also unexpected, the ornately framed watercolour portraits by Henry Wright Kerr contrasting sharply with the unadorned interior.
- Inside, the ceiling's ornately moulded plaster-work has been delicately repaired and the entire room whitewashed.
- The original train, which started service in 1982, was composed of the former private carriages of assorted Indian rulers, ornately decked out in teak and ivory.
noun ɔːˈneɪtnəsɔrˈneɪtnəs He likes the poem's blend of directness, ornateness and obliquity, unsurprisingly for an Ulsterman who is given to verbal opulence and is notoriously elusive in some of his opinions. Example sentencesExamples - Garish handles, knobs and bases cast from Victorian lamps and furniture decorate her works, parodying the stultifying ornateness that marked the era.
- He simply juxtaposes the astounding ornateness and sculptural qualities of the Indian works with his own simple, starkly beautiful geometricism.
- It is the tension between Eastern ornateness and Western relevance; between palatial splendour and pared down simplicity.
- I love the style, the architecture, the richness, and the ornateness that can only come from those early days.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin ornatus 'adorned', past participle of ornare. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of ornate in US English: ornateadjectiveɔrˈneɪtôrˈnāt 1Made in an intricate shape or decorated with complex patterns. an ornate wrought-iron railing Example sentencesExamples - The rest of our time is spent in silence, until we arrive at an ornate door decorated with cranes and dragons.
- Using a soft brush attachment she slowly cleans the ornate, rococo gilt frame surrounding a magnificent portrait by George Romney.
- The Baroque churches of Rome were imitated throughout Europe, their ornate altars enclosing a single painting or sculptural group providing a model for many years.
- Moreover, the design is asymmetrical: Each side is different from the other, which makes the ornate decoration look even more exotic.
- So far they have dreamed up murals to decorate wasteland, ornate gates for a park and colourful name signs at an estate in Farnworth where streets are named after flowers.
- Park benches, small statues, decorative flower beds and ornate lamp-posts dotted the park at discreet distances from each other.
- While poster art continued to prosper, the ornate details of Art Nouveau vanished.
- They have been found before but rarely with such ornate decoration and never in South Lakeland.
- The decoration was much more ornate than had been seen on most houses, even exquisite manors like the Big House and the Roscoe House.
- Now, people are picking elaborate color schemes and ornate frames.
- Across the hall is a spacious drawing room with a large bay window, ornate marble fireplace, decorative plaster coving and ceiling rose.
- Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
- But these are no ordinary bridges they are the most elaborate bridges you have ever seen with ornate statues and balustrades, turrets and towers.
- Most of the frescoes on the ceiling are gone, but there are ornate chandeliers, and putti attend the plaster reliefs above.
- Both the drawing room and dining room have ornate fireplaces and decorative cornicing with large windows looking out over the gardens.
- There they even have an exquisite Chess Room, filled with ornate and decorative sets from around the world, all gifted by foreign delegations.
- These restaurants are elegant and charming, often with ornate decorations and some of the best food in the city.
- Such high ceilings are everywhere - with more long corridors, elaborate and ornate walls and works of art on display.
- Wrought iron, often in ornate patterns, decorated many public buildings, bridges, and the verandahs of many homes.
- The settings range from a stormy sea to a bus stop; all verge on dizzying unreadability due to ornate decorative patterning.
Synonyms elaborate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, over-elaborate, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, baroque, rococo, florid, wedding-cake, gingerbread - 1.1 (of literary style) using unusual words and complex constructions.
peculiarly ornate and metaphorical language Example sentencesExamples - The style is ornate, lyrical, and sensual, perhaps too much so for English tastes, as the Quartet tends to be more highly regarded abroad than in Britain.
- As a consequence, these genres do not strive to show events in their experiential immediacy and do not use an excessively ornate style of presentation.
- His German epic entitled Parzifal is a massive literary production and was highly ornate in style.
- Linguistic style: Someone may write in an ornate style, speak in a laconic style, and have an aggressive style when arguing.
- Just as this statue in abandoning the straight line suggests movement and grace, the speaker too should favour an ornate style and introduce grace and variety.
Synonyms elaborate, over-elaborate, flowery, florid, flamboyant - 1.2 (of musical composition or performance) using many ornaments such as grace notes and trills.
Example sentencesExamples - It occurs in all musical forms, from the first antler beaten against a taut animal skin to the most ornate symphony.
- Evolving melodies over harmonic/rhythmic ostinatos; ornate melodies over drones - do these count as techniques?
- On the plus side was the intriguingly ornate solo piano part, with florid additions, one may speculate, to compensate for the thinner strings.
- Where Brubeck does fall down is in his overly ornate arrangements, all painstakingly constructed to seemingly draw as many parallels with classical music as possible.
- David Kuebler brings a heroic touch to Nerone, and copes well with Handel's ornate divisions.
- The other singers are specialists in the Baroque repertoire, and are unfazed by Vivaldi's ornate and virtuosic writing.
- On the other hand, Vivaldi's ornate writing for solo voices is much in evidence.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin ornatus ‘adorned’, past participle of ornare. |