Usually means: Elaborately or excessively decorated, intricate.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ornate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ornate: Merriam-Webster
  3. ornate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ornate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ornate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ornate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ornate, ornate: Wordnik
  8. ornate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ornate: Wiktionary
  10. ornate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ornate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ornate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ornate, ornate: Dictionary.com
  14. ornate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ornate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ornate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ornate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ornate: Rhymezone
  19. ornate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ornate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ornate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ornate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ornate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ornate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ornate: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See ornately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
adjective:  Flashy, flowery or showy.
adjective:  Finely finished, as a style of composition.
verb:  (obsolete) To adorn or honour (someone or something).

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