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Definition: Ornate |
OrnateAdjective1. Rich in decorative detail. 2. Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ornate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: OrnateSynonyms: embellished (adj), flowery (adj), ornamented (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Adjective: ornamented, beautified; Verb: ornate, rich, gilt, begilt, tesselated, festooned; champleve, cloisonne, topiary. |
Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ornate |
| English words defined with "ornate": bandwagon ♦ casket, casque, chandelier, corinthian ♦ elaborateness, Epimachus ♦ girandola, girandole ♦ jewel casket ♦ ornately, ornateness ♦ palace, pendant, purple passage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ornate": Far fetched ♦ lexiphage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ornate": Exornation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ornate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (elegantly, ornately, splendidly). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | An ornate oyster-shell vest modeled at Anthony's Oyster Olympics. The Oyster Olympics helps celebrate clean Pacific waters. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Chief Petty Officers study books on "Personnel Management", in the battleship's "Chief's Quarters", circa 1923-25. Note ornate cuckoo clock on the bulkhead in the background. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Meets with King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 14 February 1945. The King is speaking to the interpreter, Colonel William A. Eddy, USMC. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, the President's Aide and Chief of Staff, is at left. Note ornate carpet on the ship's deck, and life raft mounted on the side of the 5"/38 twin gun mount in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Geometric art on canvas with huge ornate signature. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Doorman without shirt standing under awning frame without awning in front of ornate entrance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of Allegheny County Court House, H.H. Richardson, architect, showing staircase with ornate newel light standard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Reading room in library, Dedham, Massachusetts with ornate counter. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Three nude characters astride an ornate building. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | William Penn Cresson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with ornate chair and balustrade. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | An Indian Prince - head and shoulders in ornate uniform. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Woodcraft" by Peter Skadberg Commentary: "Close up of chair with ornate cuts. HIGH RES PHOTO AVIAL UPON REQUEST. CREDIT WHEN PRACTICAL." | "Lampshade" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Closeup of a very ornate lampshade." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ireland | The arts of manuscript illumination, metalworking, and sculpture flourished and produced such treasures as the Book of Kells, ornate jewelry, and the many carved stone crosses that dot the island. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ornate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ornate" is used about 331 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 331 | 15,783 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ornate": embellished ornamented ornate. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ornate": over-ornate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ornate box turtle | 51 | border ornate | 3 |
ornate | 11 | box ornate picture turtle | 3 |
ornate horned frog | 7 | fencing iron ornate | 3 |
ornate uromastyx | 6 | mirror ornate vanity | 3 |
ornate mirror | 6 | ornate turtle | 2 |
ornate turtle wood | 6 | bicher ornate | 2 |
frame ornate picture | 5 | font ornate | 2 |
ornate frame | 4 | ornate furniture | 2 |
bichir ornate | 3 | ornate plate | 2 |
box care ornate turtle | 3 | ornate torch | 2 |
ornate nile monitor | 3 | monitor ornate | 2 |
eagle hawk ornate | 3 | ornate tinamou | 2 |
ghost ornate pipefish | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ornate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me zbukurime (figurate, figured, lush), me ornamente. (various references) | |
Arabic | منمق (aborned, bombastic, embellished, florid, flowery, highly elegant, ornamented, retoucher), مزخرف (adorned, decorated, decorator, embellished, fancy, flamboyant, florid, garnished, ornamented). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | натруфен (dressy, elaborate, gingerbread, luxurious, orotund, tacky, tawdry, twopence colored, twopence coloured), богато украсен, претрупан (elaborate, exuberant, finical, finicking, finicky, flamboyant, florid, fussy, gaudy, luscious, lush, luxuriant, overladen, overwrought, piled, purple, redundant, rush, tawdry). (various references) | |
Chinese | 华丽 (flashy, showy). (various references) | |
Czech | ozdobený (decorated), okrášlený, vyšperkovaný. (various references) | |
Danish | tvaerstribet vaeksthusbladlus (ornate aphid, violet aphid). (various references) | |
Farsi | پراب وتاب (Grandiose, Rotund), مزین (Clad), مصنوع (Artifact, Made, Manufacture), بیش ازحداراسته . (various references) | |
Finnish | piirtokirva (ornate aphid, violet aphid). (various references) | |
French | très orné, tarabiscoté. (various references) | |
German | überladen (clutter, cluttered, flamboyant, florid, load down, overburden, overcharge, overcharged, overcrowd, overcrowded, overelaborate, overladen, overload, overloaded, over-ornate, shower, to overcharge, to overload, to supercharge), verziert (brocaded, crested), schnörkelhaft. (various references) | |
Greek | στολισμένοσ (bedecked), πολύ στολισμένος, φανταχτερόσ (fancy, flamboyant, flashy, garish, gaudy, jazzy, tawdry), διακοσμημένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מליצי (bombastic, figurative, florid, flowery, rhetorical), מקושט (adorned, decorated, embellished, figured, ornamented), מהודר (adorned, chic, grand, luxurious, rich, sporty, stylish), מצועצע (flamboyant, florid, flowery, ornamented, showy), מסולסל (curled, curly, exalted, florid, flowery, fulsome, fuzzy, ringleted, waved), פרחי (floral, flowery), פרחוני (flowery). (various references) | |
Hungarian | választékos (chaste, neat, polished), túldíszített, díszes (arabesque, caparison, fancy, gilded, stately, storied, tidy, tricksy), ékes (flowery). (various references) | |
Indonesian | permai (beautiful, pretty, scenic), antik (antique, eccentric). (various references) | |
Italian | sovraccaricare (overburden, overcharge, overdo, overload, surcharge), adorno. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 花文字 (capital letters, flowers planted to form characters, ornate initial), 美文調 (an ornate style). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | びぶんちょう (an ornate style), はなもじ (capital letters, flowers planted to form characters, ornate initial). (various references) | |
Korean | 화려한 (Brilliant, gorgeous, showy, splendid, sumptuous). (various references) | |
Manx | ornaidagh (colourful, decorative, flashy, flowery), jesheenagh (cosmetic, decorative, dressy, ornamental, set off, showy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ornateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ornamentado (decorated, florid), ornado (inlaid), enfeitado (florid, flowery), cheio de enfeites. (various references) | |
Romanian | preţios (affected, bombastic, costly, dear, euphuistic, flatulent, golden, grandiose, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, precious, valuable, valued), cãutat (affected, appreciated, artificial, over-elaborate, recherche), bogat ornamentat, bogat împodobit. (various references) | |
Russian | витиеватый (florid, gorgeous). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukrašen (decorated, florid, frilly, jewelled), nagizdan (buckish), kitnjast (fancy, flamboyant, gaudy, natty, ornamental), išaran (freaked, mottled, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Spanish | vistoso (colorful, colourful, flamboyant, gay, gorgeous, showy), recargar (lay on, overload, recharge, reload), recargado, muy ornado, florido (blooming, florid, flowery). (various references) | |
Swedish | utsmyckad (frilly), utsirad (ornamented), dekorerad (decorated, dekorated, wrought). (various references) | |
Thai | หรูหรา (flamboyant, florid, lush, luxurious, silk-stocking, superb). (various references) | |
Turkish | süslü püslü (fancy, flamboyant, flaming, gaudy, meretricious), süslü (arrayed, bombastic, chichi, fancy, figurative, florid, flowery, frilly, high-flown, luxuriant, natty), şatafatlı (candied, de luxe, gaudy, high-flown, pompous, showy, sounding, tumid), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, fustian, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, magniloquent, overdone, puffy, slobbery, spread eagle, stagey, stagy, steep, swelling, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | орнаментований (quirky), нарядний (brave, chic, dink, dinky, nutty, spiffed, spiffing, swagger, well-dressed), барвистий (colorful, colourful, gaudy, particolored, particoloured, purple), пишномовний (altisonant, baggy, declamatory, exaggerative, gorgeous, grandiloquent, heroic, magniloquent, mannered, opulent, orotund, ossianic, puffy, rhetorical, stilted, turgid), пишно оздоблений, пишно прикрашений. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trang trí công phu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | compta, Myzus ornatus, Myzus portulacae, ornata, ornatam, ornati, ornatis, ornato, ornatum, ornatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ornate": ornately, ornateness, ornatenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ornate": unornate. (additional references) | |
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"Ornate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bornat, cornate, kornati, Morante, morantel, Norantea, Oenanthe, omnate, onite, orane, orant, orante, orati, ormat, ornade, ornale, ornare, ornat, ornated, Ornette, ornite, ornot, oronte, Orontea, Oxnageo, Roncato, Ronita, Roniti, unrate, urnae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ornate" (pronounced ôrnā"t) |
| 3 | -n ā" t | innate, Recriminate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: atoner. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: antre, atone, noter, oaten, oater, orate, tenor, toner, trona, trone. | |
-2 letters: aeon, aero, ante, earn, etna, near, neat, nota, note, rant, rate, rato, rent, roan, rota, rote, tare, tarn, taro, tear, tern, toea, tone, tora, tore, torn. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eon, era, ern, eta, nae, net, nor, not. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: another, atoners, baronet, enactor, negator, operant, outearn, pronate, protean, reboant, senator, tonearm, treason. | |
+2 letters: accentor, aeration, aeronaut, ancestor, anchoret, anointer, anoretic, anterior, anteroom, antihero, antrorse, arointed, aroynted, assentor, atropine, attorned, attorney, baritone, baronets, barytone, betatron, bevatron, carotene, cartoned, coparent, coronate, courante, creation, danewort, dragonet, earstone, emanator, enactors, enactory, estragon, frontage, monetary, monstera, negators, negatron, nonrated, notaries, notarize, obtainer, onstream, operants, ordinate, oriental, ornament, ornately, outearns, outlearn, outrance, outrange, overneat, patentor, portance, pronated, pronates, proteans, rationed, ratooned, ratooner, reaction, reanoint, relation, renovate, reobtain, resonant, resonate, routeman, seafront, senators, senorita, starnose, taborine, teardown, tetragon, tolerant, tonearms, townwear, treasons, unornate, wantoner. | |
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