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Synonyms of ornate in English:

ornate


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adjective

1‘an ornate Venetian gilt mirror’

SYNONYMS
elaborate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, over-elaborate, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, baroque, rococo, florid, wedding-cake, gingerbread
informal flash, flashy

2‘ornate, metaphorical language’

SYNONYMS
elaborate, over-elaborate, flowery, florid, flamboyant
grandiose, pompous, pretentious, affected, high-flown, high-sounding, orotund, fulsome, magniloquent, grandiloquent, rhetorical, oratorical, bombastic, laboured, strained, overwrought, overblown, overripe, overdone, convoluted, stilted, turgid, inflated
informal highfalutin, purple
rare tumid, pleonastic, euphuistic, aureate, Ossianic, fustian, hyperventilated
ANTONYMS

plain, austere, simple