aureate

1. 1.

   elaborately or excessively ornamented

   “flamboyant handwriting”

   “the senator's florid speech”

   Synonymsfloridflamboyant

   Similarfancy
2. 2.

   having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

   “long aureate (or golden) hair”

   “a gold carpet”

   Synonymsgildedgiltgoldgolden

   Similarchromatic

Questions about aureate

What does aureate mean?

aureate means "elaborately or excessively ornamented". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aureate?

aureate has 3 syllables: a-u-reate. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for aureate?

Close synonyms include florid, flamboyant, gilded, gilt, gold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aureate a common word?

aureate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.