Ornate

/ɔɹˈneɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.”

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.

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• more ornate
• most ornate
• ornates
• ornating
• ornated

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