ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
(verb) be an ornament to | - |
ornamental | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, decorative |
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(noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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ornamentally | (adverb) in an ornamental, nonfunctional manner | - |
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ornamentation | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: embellishment |
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(noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornament |
(noun) the state of being ornamented | - |
ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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ornately | (adverb) in an ornate manner | - |
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ornateness | (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: elaborateness |
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(noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric |
orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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ornithine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is important in the formation of urea | - |
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ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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ornithological | (adjective) of or relating to ornithology | - |
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ornithologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies birds | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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ornithology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies birds | - |
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ornithomimid | (noun) lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes | - |
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ornithopod | (noun) bipedal herbivorous dinosaur | Synonyms: ornithopod dinosaur |
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ornithopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: orthopter |
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ornithosis | (noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: parrot fever, psittacosis |
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