English Dictionary

ornate

IPA（発音記号）

/ɔɹˈneɪt/

形容詞

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess. / Flashy, flowery or showy / Finely finished, as a style of composition.

日本語の意味

精巧に装飾された（時に過剰なまでに装飾が施されている） / 派手で華美な（見栄えが良い、飾り立てられた） / 緻密に仕上げられた（細部にこだわった様式）

The ornate mirror, gilded with tiny roses and twisting vines, dominated the salon and made every other piece of furniture look austere.

華美な鏡は小さなバラや絡み合う蔓で金箔が施され、応接間を圧倒して他の家具をすべて質素に見せた。

意味（1）

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

意味（2）

Flashy, flowery or showy

意味（3）

Finely finished, as a style of composition.

a graceful and ornate rhetoric

more ornate （ comparative ）

most ornate （ superlative ）