| 单词 | ornate |
| 释义 | ornate (once / 3016 pages) adj If something is ornate — whether it's a ball gown, a set of dishes, or a poem — it seems to be covered in ornaments. It's lavish, flowery, or heavily adorned. Look at the first four letters of ornate, and you'll spot the beginning of its close relative ornament. Ornate most often describes how something looks, but it doesn't have to be visual. The prose in Victorian love letters was more ornate than the email messages people send today. The ornate gilded mirrors and enormous chandeliers in the palace at Versailles were the height of fashion in Marie Antoinette's time, but home decor is simpler today. Now, it seems too ornate. WORD FAMILYornate: ornately, ornateness USAGE EXAMPLESHis doves, Divinity and Majesty, flutter in an ornate white cage on the viewing balcony above. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Media trucks sat across the street, and motorists slowed to gawk at the building, whose ornate iron gates were draped with Christmas lights. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Other elements this wave brings: Chinoiserie, ornate historic motifs, florals, organic patterns and the handmade. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj marked by complexity and richness of detail Syn elaborate, luxuriant fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented 2adj marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details " ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton Syn flowery rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought |
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