| Main Entry: | ornamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decorative |
Synonyms: |
accessory, adorning, attractive, beautiful, beautifying, decking, decorating, delicate, dressy, elaborate, embellishing, enhancing, exquisite, fancy, festooned, florid, for show, furbishing, garnishing, heightening, luxurious, ornate, setting off, showy |
| Notes: | ornamental means serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose, while ornate means elaborately or excessively decorated or adorned |
Antonyms: |
plain, unembellished |
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, satisfying to senses |
Synonyms: |
aesthetic, creative, cultivated, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, pictorial, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, rhythmical, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful |
Antonyms: |
distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | decorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautifying |
Synonyms: |
adorning, cosmetic, embellishing, enhancing, fancy, florid, nonfunctional, ornamental, prettifying, pretty |
Antonyms: |
ugly |
| Main Entry: | florid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very elaborate |
Synonyms: |
aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, garnished, grandiloquent, high-flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, pretentious, rhetorical, rich, sonorous |
| Notes: | floriated means 'decorated with flowers' while florid is 'blooming with flowers' |
Antonyms: |
inelaborate, natural, plain, undecorated, unornate |