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Synonyms for ornate
Synonyms for ornate: elaborate and flowery. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for ornate
Interchangeable with ornate in this sense
Audited under ornate's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one ornate carries in that sense.
- elaborateadjective, in the sense "elaborately decorated"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name ornate as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- floweryflowery is an adjective in the sense "marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details"
one of these comes from ornate's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
elaborately decorated
The mirror's ornate frame was carved with vines and leaves.
The true synonym
elaborate
Same sentence, swapped: The mirror's elaborate frame was carved with vines and leaves.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot ornate is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- rustic
- spacious
- weathered
Where ornate turns up in the game
ornate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where ornate is the trap
- ricketyadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is unstable, in the sense "likely to collapse, shaky and poorly constructed", and ornate is one of the three tiles that lose.
- asymmetricaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is unbalanced, in the sense "lacking correspondence between two sides; unevenly arranged", and ornate is one of the three tiles that lose.
- sleekadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is streamlined, in the sense "smooth and streamlined in design or shape", with ornate sitting one tile away.
- ostentatiousadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is pretentious, in the sense "intended to attract notice and impress others", so ornate is there to be ruled out.
Play ornate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ornate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from objects at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ornate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.