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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary or·nate \\ȯr-ˈnāt\\ adjective ETYMOLOGY Middle English ornat, from Latin ornatus, past participle of ornare to furnish, embellish; akin to Latin ordo order — more at order DATE 15th century 1. marked by elaborate rhetoric or florid style 2. elaborately or excessively decorated an ornate mantle • or·nate·ly adverb • or·nate·ness noun English Etymology ornate 1420, from L. ornatus "adorned," pp. of ornare "adorn, fit out," from stem of ordo "order" (see order). Earliest ref. is to literary style. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ornate or·nate / C:5neit; NAmE C:r5n- / adjective covered with a lot of decoration, especially when this involves very small or complicated designs 华美的；富丽的；豪华的: a mirror in an ornate gold frame 镶着豪华金框的镜子 • or·nate·ly adv.: ornately carved chairs 精雕细刻的椅子 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English ornate adj VERBS be ADV. highly, richly, very | quite, rather Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: ornate aphid or·nate I. \(ˈ)ȯr|nāt, (ˈ)ȯ(ə)|-, usu -ād.+V\ adjective Etymology: Middle English ornat, from Latin ornatus, past participle of ornare to furnish, embellish; akin to Latin ordinare to order, arrange — more at ordain 1. : marked by elaborate rhetoric or florid style < ornate poems can be more satisfactorily translated than simple ones — Walter Silz > < is clear and simple rather than ornate and pompous — Times Literary Supplement > 2. : elaborately ornamented : amply or excessively decorated < the most ornate carving and gold of the baroque churches — Lewis Mumford > Synonyms: ornate , rococo , baroque , flamboyant , florid can mean, in common, elaborately and often pretentiously decorated or designed. ornate can apply to anything heavily adorned or ornamented or conspicuously embellished < the extremely ornate gingerbread architecture of the eighties and nineties, when fanciful scrollwork trim, cupolas, and brackets were in vogue — American Guide Series: Arizona > < elaborate and ornate rituals — A.M.Young > < stately town houses, ornate with hand-carved woodwork, sparkling chandeliers, elaborate fireplaces, and imported rugs — American Guide Series: Arkansas > < a prose simple or ornate as the situation demands — William Peden > rococo , applying originally to an elaborate playful and fanciful 18th century French decorative design, can apply to any similarly elaborate decoration, especially with an ornateness of design (as of furniture, mirror frames) marked by proliferating curves and scrolls, shellwork, and general fancifulness and often extending to anything regarded as overelaborately decorated < the long rococo halls, giddy with plush and whorled designs in gold, were peopled with Roman fragments, white and disassociated; a runner's leg, the chilly half-turned head of a matron stricken at the bosom — Djuna Barnes > < the extreme refinement and delicacy of 12th century taste is a little saccharine, a little rococo, with just a hint of something meretricious verging on the tawdry — T.K.Whipple > < doesn't mind getting caught out with a rococo phrase or an overstuffed image — Los Angeles (Calif.) Times > baroque , often loosely interchangeable with rococo but from a style of architecture prior to the rococo, suggests more an extravagant massive strength, often grotesqueness, of decorative quality, stressing the ingenious, varied, bizarre, or contorted, often in overintricate interrelationship < a baroque style, it has been called by critics who admired this funeral sumptuousness, this glittering bric-a-brac, this aesthetic perversity — Claude Vigée > < a landscape of truly baroque invention, richly variegated and unfailing in its calculated surprises — Times Literary Supplement > < baroque poetry with its frigid vehemence, its exhibitionistic forcefulness and false dynamism, its arbitrary twisting and distortions, its carefully arranged denaturalizing of living speech into a dead language, its strained mannerisms and calculated artificialities — H.L.Davis > < poetry is baroque. Baroque is tragic, massive and mystical. It is elemental. It demands depth and insight — W.S.Maugham > flamboyant can suggest an ornateness but stresses more an excess of color or bold, daring, conspicuous display < a flair for flamboyant clothes, including red slacks — Time > < a man of flamboyant egotism, given to pomposities of speech and absurdities of prose — New Yorker > < he indulges in flamboyant gestures and exaggerated strutting — Howard Barnes > < the worker's reaction was characterized more by a serious eagerness than a flamboyant enthusiasm — Samuel Liss > florid suggests an overelaboration of rich color, figure of speech, ornamental flourish, and so on, implying showiness and conspicuous embellishment < she would put on the florid costume, fix the gold circlets into the lobes of her ears, slip the garish imitation topaz onto her forefinger — William Fifield > < florid oriental imagery — Douglas Bush > < florid verbiage — H.G.Wells > < contrasting with the simplicity of these gardens was the exotic, florid display of fruit and vegetable stands — Buick Magazine > II. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English ornaten, from Latin ornatus, past participle of ornare obsolete : adorn |
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