ornate
adj.adj. covered with a lot of complicated decorations. You use this to describe things like buildings or furniture that have many small, beautiful details.
adj. elaborately or excessively decorated with complex patterns and details. Often used to describe architectural styles, furniture, or formal prose.
The mirror has an ornate gold frame.
The cathedral is famous for its ornate ceiling, which features hundreds of hand-painted figures and gold leaf.
While modern design favors minimalism, the Victorian era was defined by ornate interiors where every surface was covered in intricate carvings and heavy fabrics.
Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.
From Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French orner.
Typically used attributively before a noun or predicatively after a linking verb like 'is' or 'looks'.