- 1華麗的、裝飾繁複的
Something ornate is covered with a lot of decoration — , painted, or detailed until it looks very rich, and sometimes too rich. An ornate gold frame, an ornate church ceiling. Though actually, people also use it for language: ornate writing is full of fancy extra words, and that is not always praise — it can mean the writer is showing off. The word is a learned borrowing from Latin ornatus, “,” from a verb meaning to equip or dress something up. It is the opposite feel of plain or bare.
組成Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, “adorned,” from ōrnāre, “to equip or adorn.”
同家族的字
- ornamentsame Latin ornare, to adorn
- ornamentalsame family, but ornamental means “for decoration,” not “heavily decorated”
- ornatelythe adverb: ornate + -ly
- adornfrom Latin adornare, built on the same ornare
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ornateadj詞源 1/ɔɹˈneɪt/
- 1
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
- The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
- 2
Flashy, flowery or showy.
- 3
Finely finished, as a style of composition.
- a graceful and ornate rhetoric
ornateverb詞源 2
- 1
obsoleteTo adorn or honour (someone or something).
- And truely thoſe that lyue in the feare of god, (conſydering that they ſerue not only their carnal maiſters, but God hymſelfe,) they be in a good caſe: but they may not bee eye ſeruauntes. […] Saincte Paule woulde haue them to lyue ſo, that they maye ornate and ſanctifye the name of God.
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