ornamental
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːnəˈmɛntl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntl/
Adjective
ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)
- Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
- Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
- Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book IV:
- We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
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Translations
serving to ornament
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plant serving to ornament
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “ornamental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ornamental” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “ornamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ornamental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ornamenˈtal/, [ornamẽn̪ˈt̪al]
Related terms
Further reading
- “ornamental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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