adj
Meaning 1
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fancy
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ornate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ɔɹˈneɪt/
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rhymes with -eɪt
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CMU ARPABET: AO0 R N EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Flashy, flowery or showy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Finely finished, as a style of composition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To adorn or honour (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details-John Milton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a flowery speech
- ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flowery
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.
From Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French orner.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: натруфен (natrufen) — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Dutch: sierlijk — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Dutch: barok — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Esperanto: ornamita — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Finnish: koristeellinen — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Finnish: koristeltu — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- German: kunstvoll — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- German: ornamentreich — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- German: reich verziert — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Macedonian: на́труфен (nátrufen) — elaborately ornamented, often to excess
- Cornish: afînus — flashy, flowery or showy
- Cornish: taclys — flashy, flowery or showy
- Cornish: tegennek — flashy, flowery or showy
- Dutch: bloemrijk — flashy, flowery or showy
- Dutch: overladen — flashy, flowery or showy
- Finnish: pramea — flashy, flowery or showy
Real reading context