Ornate

Word ORNATE
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Definitions and meanings of "Ornate"

What do we mean by ornate?

Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented. adjective

Elaborate or showy, as in style. adjective

Ornamented; artistically finished; ornamental; of an ornamental character: especially applied to an elaborate literary style.

Adorned; decorated.

To adorn; ornament.

To adorn; to honor. transitive verb

Elaborately adorned or decorated; beautifully sumptuous. adjective

Finely finished, as a style of composition. adjective

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess. adjective

Flashy, flowery or showy adjective

To adorn; to honour. verb

Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details adjective

To adorn; to honour.

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The word "ornate" in example sentences

Awesome, a creepy-looking ex-Nazi Pope in ornate robes and a huge funny hat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The modern-meets-sultry pumps and flats in ornate silk patterns could be worn with a silk qipao, or form-fitting dress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rich in ornate mosques, Islamic tombs, cave churches, centuries old houses carved in the limestone cliffs, the entire site will be inundated. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Examples (N.B. big images): "Head study", a very nice studio portrait of an unnamed red-haired lady; Kush-Beggi (Minister of the Interior) of Bukhara, in ornate robes on an almost as ornate carpet; the riverside city of Vitebsk; and a "Compound" steam engine with a Schmidt super-heater. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

But also on the Greek Parnassus of that time sat the same connoisseurs of degeneration who, in ornate words, declared their pessimistic conviction that nothing in this world was worth anything except their ability to express perfectly this very thought. ❋ Unknown (1979)

"Missing Soldiers Office," it read in ornate gold lettering on a black background. "3rd. ❋ Michael E. Ruane (2010)

What Ms. Surno describes as an "ornate, lush, gorgeous orgy" is a 29-minute phantasmagoria. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

She wore a collar of a sort, rather high and ornate, which is often jeweled. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1983)

For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called "kosmos," that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)

It was much too ornate, that is certain; and it alone would have made him absurd had not fate joined forces against him and at precisely this point prompted Harry, who was for once impatient with his progress, to try to reproduce the larger music coursing through his soul. ❋ Unknown (1937)

There is little left of the Tuilleries to-day to recall the ornate splendors of the Second Empire, when the Empress Eugenie held her court there, and gave garden parties under the oaks and the chestnuts. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

Inside, this 7 bedroom, 9 bathroom house has beautiful details such as ornate tiling and lighting fixtures and stained glass windows. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Standing atop the club's Sicilian marble staircase that he first climbed in 1986, 61-year-old Mr. Portman marveled at the club's "ornate" ballroom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most of the fixies here aren't as "ornate" as the ones I've seen on the east coast, but give them some time. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

           The receiving line stretched into the lobby of the funeral home, which was decorated with faded Waverly wallpaper, dirty lemon yellow carpeting, and the kind of ornate white furniture I used to want in my bedroom when I was a little girl. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For myself, between the fascinating plots of the stories Miéville tells and his descriptive I almost used "ornate" but that's not quite right writing style, I find that I am constantly on the look-out for his new books. ❋ Fred Perry (2009)

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