Ornate vs Elegant - What's the difference?
ornate | elegant |
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
(obsolete) To adorn; to honour.
Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
As adjectives the difference between ornate and elegant
is that ornate is elaborately ornamented, often to excess while elegant is elegant.As a verb ornate
is (obsolete) to adorn; to honour.ornate
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(ornat)- They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. — Latimer.
Anagrams
* ----elegant
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(wikipedia elegant)Adjective
(en adjective)- an elegant solution