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or·nate

(ôr-nāt′)

adj.

1. Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented.

2. Elaborate or showy, as in style: ornate rhetoric.

[Middle English, from Latin ōrnātus, past participle of ōrnāre, to embellish; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

or·nate′ly adv.

or·nate′ness n.

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Noun	1.	ornateness - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric flourish - a display of ornamental speech or language expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant - pompous or pretentious talk or writing
	2.	ornateness - an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated elaborateness appearance, visual aspect - outward or visible aspect of a person or thing flamboyance, floridity, floridness, showiness - extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance" fussiness - unnecessary elaborateness in details

Translations

زُخْرُفَه، زينَه

overdådighed

reiche Ausschmückung

ornementation exagérée

díszítettség

íburîur

snirklethet

vycifrovanosťvyumelkovanosť

aşırı süs

装饰

ornateness

[ɔːˈneɪtnɪs] N [of decor, ceiling, building, vase] → lo ornamentado; [of language] → lo florido, estilo m florido, recargamiento m (pej)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

ornateness

n → Verzierungsreichtum m; (of baroque church, palace etc) → Prunk m, → Prachtentfaltung f; (of music) → ornamentaler Reichtum; (of style) → Reichtum m; (of description) → Wortreichtum m, → Umständlichkeit f (pej); (of decoration) → Reichtum m, → Aufwendigkeit f, → Aufwändigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

ornate

(oːˈneit) adjective

with a lot of ornament. an ornate doorway.

orˈnately adverb

orˈnateness noun

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