2020-11-21
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด O – Ornate & ornamental
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Ornate = ‘awr-NEYT’
ออกเสียง ornamental = ‘awr-nuh-MEN-tl’
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Oornate & ornamental
Ornate means elaborately or excessively adorned, dressed, or displayed.
It means “showy,” “pretentious,” or “ostentatious”:
“This richly carved furniture is ornate.”
Ornamental has a related meaning of “decorative,”
but it does not imply showiness, ostentation, or vulgarity:
“The pot of ivy in that corner of the living room is ornamental.”
“The light sweater that Anne wore across her shoulders was more ornamental than useful.”
American Heritage Dictionary
SYNONYMS: ornate, florid, flamboyant, baroque, rococo.
These adjectives mean elaborately, often excessively ornamented.
Ornate implies lavishness and heaviness: a building with an ornate façade; “ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato” (John Milton).
Something florid is both ornate and flowery:
The senator gave a florid speech.
Flamboyant relates to a French Gothic architectural style marked by wavy flamelike forms; in a less technical sense the term suggests excessively vivid color, overwrought design, or striking audacity or verve: flamboyant red hair; flamboyant handwriting; “that flamboyant but egotistical figure, Alexander the Great” (H.G. Wells).
Baroque applies to a European artistic stylemarked by ornate scrolls and curves. It often connotes rich, sometimes bizarre or incongruous ornamentation: “the building . . . coldly classical or frantically baroque” (William Dean Howells).
Rococo describes the 18th-century European stylethat grew out of the baroque and is characterized by profuse ornamentation,
such as graceful and delicate shells and foliage. It can also connote immoderate, perhaps even ridiculous complexity: an exquisite gilded rococo mirror; rococo notions of an imperial presidency; “a rococo combination of warm slivers of buttery Scotch salmon encircling dollops of crcme fraîche, each speckled with a different caviar” (Bryan Miller).
