Ornate vs Embellish - What's the difference?
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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.
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
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To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
As verbs the difference between ornate and embellish
is that ornate is (obsolete) to adorn; to honour while embellish is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.As an adjective ornate
is elaborately ornamented, often to excess.ornate
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(ornat)- They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. — Latimer.
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* ----embellish
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(es)- The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
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- to embellish a story, the truth
