Entry Word: ornate

Function: adjective

Meaning: elaborately and often excessively decorated <an ornate gambling casino that is designed to look like an Italian palace>

Synonyms bedizened, florid, gingerbread, overdecorated, overwrought

Related Words arabesque, baroque, rococo; extravagant, flamboyant, spectacular, splashy; flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, ostentatious, pretentious, showy, swank, tawdry; elaborate, extreme; adorned, arrayed, beautified, bedecked, decked, decorated, dressed, embellished, enriched, garnished, ornamented, trimmed; flowery, frilly, lacy; enhanced, heightened, intensified; bossed, chased, emblazoned, embossed, embroidered, flounced, fringed, garlanded, gilded, laced, wreathed

Near Antonyms bare, denuded, exposed, naked, stripped, uncovered; modest, simple, unassuming, unpretentious; conservative, muted, quiet, restrained, subdued, tasteful, toned-down, understated, unobtrusive

Antonyms austere, plain, severe, stark, unadorned