ORNATE Synonyms

• provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

• of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

• of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750

• elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

• the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe

• having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation

• serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose

• marked by complexity and richness of detail

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product

• make more complex, intricate, or richer

• work out in detail

• indulging in or influenced by fancy

• not based on fact; existing only in the imagination

• having a curiously intricate quality

• not plain; decorative or ornamented

• something many people believe that is false

• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

• a predisposition to like something

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

• showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

• marked by ostentation but often tasteless

• elaborately or excessively ornamented

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• very generous

• characterized by extravagance and profusion

• expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns

• ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

• having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation

• marked by ostentation but often tasteless

• displaying brilliance and virtuosity

• (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

• superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense

• add details to

• be beautiful to look at

• make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

• make more beautiful

• of or relating to or suggestive of flowers

• marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details