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1
elaborately and often excessively decorated
- an ornate gambling casino that is designed to look like an Italian palace
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- bedaubed,
- flashy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glitzy,
- loud,
- ostentatious,
- pretentious,
- showy,
- swank
- (or swanky),
- tawdry
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2
full of fine words and fancy expressions
- the ornate prose that was standard in all diplomatic correspondence in those days
Synonyms for ornate
- aureate,
- florid,
- flowery,
- grandiloquent,
- high-flown,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- magnific,
- purple,
- rhetorical
- (also rhetoric)
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“Ornate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornate. Accessed 22 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of ornate was in the 15th century
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