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单词 ornate
释义

ornate

/ɔːˈneɪt /
adjective
1Elaborately 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

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