say it: awr-NAYT
ornate is an adjective meaning "marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details". It is pronounced /ɔɹˈneɪt/ — awr-NAYT. It carries one recorded sense.
marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
“a flowery speech”
“ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ornate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.