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English noun: ornateness | |||
| 1. | ornateness (communication) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | ||
| Samples | The grandiosity of his prose. An excessive ornateness of language. | ||
| Synonyms | grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expressive style, style | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blah, bombast, claptrap, flourish, fustian, rant | ||
| 2. | ornateness (attribute) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | ||
| Synonyms | elaborateness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | appearance, visual aspect | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | flamboyance, floridity, floridness, fussiness, showiness | ||
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