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ornamental

adj
/ˌɔː.nəˈmɛn.təl/UK/ˌɔɹ.nəˈmɛn.təl/US

Etymology

From ornament + -al.

  1. derived from ornamentum
  2. derived from ornement
  3. derived from ornament
  4. formed as ornamental — “ornament + -al”

Definitions

  1. Serving as an ornament

    Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.

    • Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
    • We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
    • There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]

  2. Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.

    • Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.

  3. An ornamental plant.

    • The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.

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Derived

nonornamental, ornamental hermit, ornamentalism, ornamentalist, ornamentality, ornamentalize, ornamentalness, unornamental

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ornamental. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ornamental. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at ornamental

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA