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The hotel is decorated with ornate furniture, lots of carved designs, and gold leaf gilding.ornate = having lots of decorative detail
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I don't care for her ornate style of speech.ornate = more complicated than necessary because of unusual words and phrases
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It was the most ornate building I've ever seen.ornate = having lots of decorative detail
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Shoto took the sword and drew its ornate blade a few inches from the scabbard. (source)
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It was a magnificent mirror, as high as the ceiling, with an ornate gold frame, standing on two clawed feet. (source)
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The furniture, a mixture of Logan-crafted walnut and oak, included a walnut bed whose ornate headboard rose halfway up the wall toward the high ceiling, (source)
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"Oh, it's an ornate scallop, Pecten ornatus," Kya said. (source)ornate = having lots of decorative detail
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Reflexively, his eyes flickered to another picture — the most colorful of them all, the most ornately framed, and the largest; it was twice as wide as the door it hung next to.† (source)ornately = with much decorative detail
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The ornateness of it, the mannered swoops and swirls, surprised him-a reaction that the landlady apparently divined, for she said, "Uh-huh.† (source)ornateness = the quality of having much decorative detailstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Several of these referred to Guy Francon, "who has a tendency to the overornate, but must be commended for his loyalty to the strict tradition of Classicism."† (source)overornate = having excessive decorative detailstandard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overornate means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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When we finished, our bunk beds looked sort of plain, so we spray-painted the sides with ornate red and black curlicues. (source)ornate = decorative detail of
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Maybe he was my several times great grandfather, but still vaguely alive in the memory of my family because his daughter had bought a large Bible in an ornately carved, wooden chest and had begun keeping family records in it.† (source)ornately = with much decorative detail
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Ever since then I have been passed from hand to hand within the firm, like some ornate silver teapot fobbed off on each new generation as a wedding gift, but that nobody ever uses. (source)ornate = fancy
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I'm sure the Doctor felt grand to have two such ornately dressed women kneeling at his feet that way.† (source)ornately = with much decorative detail
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It was true, yet in those ornate corridors, the thought of returning to Aiaia was strange.† (source)ornate = having lots of decorative detail
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As I sipped sweet tea and fidgeted, his Holiness rooted around in an adjacent cabinet, brought out a large, ornately decorated book, and handed it to me.† (source)ornately = with much decorative detail
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