Usually means: Elaborately or excessively decorated, intricate.
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  1. ornate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ornate: Merriam-Webster
  3. ornate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ornate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ornate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ornate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ornate, ornate: Wordnik
  8. ornate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ornate: Wiktionary
  10. ornate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ornate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ornate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ornate, ornate: Dictionary.com
  14. ornate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ornate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ornate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ornate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ornate: Rhymezone
  19. ornate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ornate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ornate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ornate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ornate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ornate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ornate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ornate)

▸ adjective:  Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
▸ adjective:  Flashy, flowery or showy.
▸ adjective:  Finely finished, as a style of composition.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To adorn or honour (someone or something).

Similar:
embellished, decorated, adorned, rhetorical, flowery, ornamented, overornate, overdecorative, overelaborate, overwrought, more...

Opposite:
simple, plain, unadorned, austere, basic

Types:
rococo, neoclassical, baroque, gothic, Renaissance, Victorian, art deco, modern, more...

Phrases:
ornate horned toad, ornate tinamou, Ornate box turtle, Ornate hawk-eagle, Ornate wrasse, more...

Adjectives:
least, same, own, most, beautiful, mere, several, interesting

Colors:
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Similar:
embellished, decorated, adorned, rhetorical, flowery, ornamented, overornate, overdecorative, overelaborate, overwrought, more...

Opposite:
simple, plain, unadorned, austere, basic

Types:
rococo, neoclassical, baroque, gothic, Renaissance, Victorian, art deco, modern, more...

Phrases:
ornate horned toad, ornate tinamou, Ornate box turtle, Ornate hawk-eagle, Ornate wrasse, Ornate sleeper-ray, excessively ornate, far from ornate, very ornate, too ornate, ornate centerpiece, overly ornate, more...

Adjectives:
least, same, own, most, beautiful, mere, several, interesting

Colors:
    gold,     burgundy,     emerald,     sapphire,     ruby, more...



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