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Decorated vs Ornate - What's the difference?

decorated | ornate |

As verbs the difference between decorated and ornate

is that decorated is past tense of decorate while ornate is to adorn; to honour.

As an adjective ornate is

elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

decorated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (decorate)

  • decorate

    English

    Verb

    (decorat)
  • To furnish with decorations.
  • To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
  • (computing) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
  • It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.

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    Derived terms

    * decorative

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    ornate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
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  • *: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.”
  • Flashy, flowery or showy
  • Finely finished, as a style of composition.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:a graceful and ornate rhetoric
  • Verb

    (ornat)
  • (obsolete) To adorn; to honour.
  • They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. — Latimer.

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