Word Meanings - ORNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton. 2. Finely finished, as a style of composition. A graceful and ornate rhetoric. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ORNATE)

• Florid
• Rubicund
• flowery
• sanguine
• ornate
• overwrought
• meretricious

Related words: (words related to ORNATE)

• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLORIDA BEAN
  The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
• FLORIDNESS
  The quality of being florid. Boyle.
• SANGUINENESS
  The quality of being sanguine.
• ORNATE
  1. Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton. 2. Finely finished, as a style of composition. A graceful and ornate rhetoric. Milton.
• SANGUINELESS
  Destitute of blood; pale.
• SANGUINE
  1. Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton. 2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament.
• FLORIDITY
  The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.
• MERETRICIOUS
  prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
• FLORIDLY
  In a florid manner.
• FLORID
  Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. (more info) 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.
• ORNATENESS
  The quality of being ornate.
• FLORIDEAE
  A subclass of algæ including all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.
• ORNATELY
  In an ornate manner. Sir T. More.
• OVERWROUGHT
  Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
• SANGUINELY
  In a sanguine manner. I can not speculate quite so sanguinely as he does. Burke.
• RUBICUNDITY
  The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.
• SANGUINEOUS
  1. Abounding with blood; sanguine. 2. Of or pertaining to blood; bloody; constituting blood. Sir T. Browne. 3. Blood-red; crimson. Keats.
• RUBICUND
  Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.
• CONSANGUINED
  Of kin blood; related. Johnson.
• EXSANGUINEOUS
  Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.
• CONSANGUINEAL
  Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.
• ENSANGUINE
  To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.
• EXSANGUINE
  Bloodless.