ornamental

Other forms of ornamental

plural

ornamentals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ornamental

What does ornamental mean?

ornamental means "any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ornamental?

ornamental has 4 syllables: or-na-men-tal. The stress falls on "men". In IPA it is /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntəl/.

What is another word for ornamental?

Close synonyms include cosmetic, decorative. 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 ornamental a common word?

ornamental 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.

What rhymes with ornamental?

18 words rhyme with ornamental. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.