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ornate is an adjective meaning "marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details". 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.