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ornate

adj
/ɔɹˈneɪt/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.

  1. learned borrowing from ōrnātus

Definitions

  1. Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

  2. Flashy, flowery or showy.

  3. Finely finished, as a style of composition.

    • a graceful and ornate rhetoric
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To adorn or honour (someone or something).

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Derived

inornate, ornate aphid, ornate hawk-eagle, ornate horned toad, ornateness, ornate rainbowfish, ornate shrew, ornate tinamou, overornate, unornate

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at ornate

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

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