ornamental
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːnəˈmɛntl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntl/
Adjective
ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)
- Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
- Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative
- Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book IV:
- We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
- 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 20:
- There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]
- (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.
- Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.
Related terms
Translations
serving to ornament
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bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes
Noun
ornamental (plural ornamentals)
- An ornamental plant.
- 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3:
- The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.
Translations
plant serving to ornament
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)
Further reading
- “ornamental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ornamental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “ornamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ornamental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
Adjective
ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)
Further reading
- “ornamental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Etymology
From ornamento (“ornament”) + -al (“of or relating to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)
Derived terms
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French ornemental.
Adjective
ornamental m or n (feminine singular ornamentală, masculine plural ornamentali, feminine and neuter plural ornamentale)
Declension
Declension of ornamental
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | ornamental | ornamentală | ornamentali | ornamentale | ||
| definite | ornamentalul | ornamentala | ornamentalii | ornamentalele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | ornamental | ornamentale | ornamentali | ornamentale | ||
| definite | ornamentalului | ornamentalei | ornamentalilor | ornamentalelor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “ornamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014