English edit

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology edit

ornament +‎ -al

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)

  1. 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[ndrew] 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[.]
  2. (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 edit

Translations edit

Noun edit

ornamental (plural ornamentals)

  1. 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 edit

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

From ornament +‎ -al.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentals)

  1. ornamental

Further reading edit

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From ornamento +‎ -al.

Adjective edit

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)

  1. ornamental

Further reading edit

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From ornamento (ornament) +‎ -al (of or relating to).

Pronunciation edit

 
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtal/ [ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔɾ.nɐ.mẽˈta.li/

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: or‧na‧men‧tal

Adjective edit

ornamental m or f (plural ornamentais)

  1. ornamental

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French ornemental.

Adjective edit

ornamental m or n (feminine singular ornamentală, masculine plural ornamentali, feminine and neuter plural ornamentale)

  1. ornamental

Declension edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From ornamento +‎ -al.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /oɾnamenˈtal/ [oɾ.na.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: or‧na‧men‧tal

Adjective edit

ornamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural ornamentales)

  1. ornamental

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit