Ornate

Quick meaning: Ornate is an adjective meaning Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

Meaning

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

More Meanings

1. Flashy, flowery or showy.
2. Finely finished, as a style of composition.
3. (obsolete) To adorn or honour (someone or something).

Example Sentences

a graceful and ornate rhetoric

And truely thoſe that lyue in the feare of god, (conſydering that they ſerue not only their carnal maiſters, but God hymſelfe,) they be in a good caſe: but they may not bee eye ſeruauntes. […] Saincte Paule woulde haue them to lyue ſo, that they maye ornate and ſanctifye the name of God.

The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

Word Forms

• ornates
• ornating
• ornated

Synonyms for ornate

Depending on context, synonyms include fancy, embellished, adorned, rhetorical, decorated, flowery.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embellished, rhetorical, adorned, decorated, flowery, ornamented.

Related Dictionary Tools