ornate

[awr-neyt] / ɔrˈneɪt /

ADJECTIVE

fancily decorated

Synonyms

STRONGEST

baroque beautiful elegant embroidered fancy gaudy gilded glamorous lavish magnificent opulent rococo sparkling sumptuous

WEAK

adorned aureate bedecked bright brilliant busy colored convoluted dazzling elaborate fine flamboyant flashy flaunting florid flowery fussy glitzy glossy high-wrought jeweled luscious meretricious ornamented ostentatious overdone overelaborate pretentious resplendent rich showy splashy superficial tawdry variegated

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dull offensive plain poor ugly unsophisticated

WEAK

simple

Example Sentences

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Conservator Clare Emerson is painstakingly removing the dirt of the dig from an ornate copper brooch.

From BBC

From her “controlled chaos” come intricate, ornate, one-of-a-kind necklaces, earrings, brooches and rings.

From Los Angeles Times

Nobles and elites would build ornate bamboo cages for their birds to display their elegance and wealth.

From BBC

At least two show Clinton in an ornate swimming pool, including alongside Maxwell.

From The Wall Street Journal

Hicks will now leave his position as bishop of Joliet for the ornate sanctuary at St Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, where he will lead 2.5 million Catholics in the nation's largest city.

From BBC

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