| Main Entry: |
ornate |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
fancily decorated |
Synonyms: |
adorned,
aureate, baroque,
beautiful, bedecked,
bright,
brilliant,
busy, colored,
convoluted,
dazzling,
elaborate,
elegant, embroidered,
fancy,
fine,
flamboyant,
flashy, flaunting,
florid, flowery,
fussy,
gaudy, gilded,
glamorous, glitzy, glossy, high-wrought, jeweled,
lavish,
luscious,
magnificent,
meretricious,
opulent, ornamented,
ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate,
pretentious,
resplendent,
rich, rococo,
showy,
sparkling, splashy,
sumptuous,
superficial,
tawdry,
variegated
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| Notes: |
ornamental means serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose, while ornate means elaborately or excessively decorated or adorned |
Antonyms: |
plain, simple
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