ORNATE definition: elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so. See examples of ornate used in a sentence.

The meaning of ORNATE is marked by elaborate rhetoric or florid style. How to use ornate in a sentence.

ORNATE definition: 1. having a lot of complicated decoration: 2. Language that is ornate contains too many…. Learn more.

1. Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented. 2. Elaborate or showy, as in style: ornate rhetoric.

An ornate building, piece of furniture, or object is decorated with complicated patterns or shapes. ...an ornate iron staircase.

Definition of ornate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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 …

Ornate definition: Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented.

ORNATE meaning: 1 : covered with decorations covered with fancy patterns and shapes; 2 : using many fancy words

elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa. florid or high-flown: an ornate style of writing. or•nate′ness, n. showy, ostentatious; rich, lavish. …