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ornate /ɔːˈneɪt /adjective1Elaborately or highly decorated: an ornate wrought-iron railing...- 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 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...- 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.
- 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.
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 Derivatives ornately /ɔːˈneɪtli / adverb ...- In 1628, the ornately carved and heavily gunned ship had sunk - after less than a mile of her maiden voyage.
- It's Spanish-style front offices contain a cavernous, ornately designed room that once served as a Masonic lodge.
- Inside, the ceiling's ornately moulded plaster-work has been delicately repaired and the entire room whitewashed.
ornateness /ɔːˈneɪtnəs / noun ...- I love the style, the architecture, the richness, and the ornateness that can only come from those early days.
- He simply juxtaposes the astounding ornateness and sculptural qualities of the Indian works with his own simple, starkly beautiful geometricism.
- Garish handles, knobs and bases cast from Victorian lamps and furniture decorate her works, parodying the stultifying ornateness that marked the era.
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 |