ORNATELY Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

ornately

adverb

Definition of ornately

as in garishly

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Recent Examples of ornately He was hired by McCartney to be the head of A&R at Apple Records, the company launched by the Beatles in April 1968, and was the one who brought in James Taylor, producing his first album — which, in fact, was ornately overproduced, and didn’t make much of a mark. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 June 2026 The one-shoulder dress was designed with a billowing, one-shoulder top with an ornately speckled red and white pattern motif throughout. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 10 June 2026 At other times, the cage might be ornately gilded. — Big Think, 6 May 2026 Elaborate stages are built for the camera close-ups as much as the crowd, often featuring prefab cinematic interludes, ornately detailed costumes, titillating dance moves and surreal, maximalist graphics. — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026 It is made entirely from gold sheets and ornately decorated with protective symbols. — Ryan Brennan april 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026 Her custom jade green bustier gown came with a plunging sweetheart neckline and peplum waist, ornately embellished in stone and crystal embroidery. — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 16 Mar. 2026 Inside, the ornately elegant venue may have seemed like an unlikely setting for Junior H’s melancholy corridos tumbados. — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2026 Just west of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, this spacious and ornately decorated Mediterranean restaurant is hosting its annual Ramadan iftar buffet, featuring appetizers, salads, fresh fruit, soups, entrees and desserts. — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026

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But where the exhibitions on Cribs were charmingly, sometimes garishly, idiosyncratic, today’s represent a subtler and often more generic version of taste.

— Kim Hew-Low, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025

Definition of garishly

Adverb

Wiener not only leaves behind a richly complex body of work straddling textiles, painting, photographs, and collages, but also a career intricately connected to one of the most important chapters of Austrian art.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
And it was richly deserved, according to Purdue University, which created the international award and named it after perhaps its most famous alumnus.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of richly

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Bryan Fuller’s expressionistic procedural is ostentatiously gruesome, yes, but the increasingly disturbing interplay between Will and Hannibal — cat and mouse, will-they/won’t they — is a full course meal on its own.

— Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
In her closet were seven Ungaros, three Rykiels, a Kamali bathing suit and a Kamali sleeping-bag coat, five Kenzo dresses, two pieces from the Ballets Russes collection of Saint Laurent—all of which were trades or payments in kind, none of them mothballed, but instead worn ostentatiously and often.

— Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

Definition of ostentatiously

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Rooms are decorated with minibars crafted in Jaipur, flamboyantly upholstered chairs, Murano-glass chandeliers, and marbled wallpaper sourced and crafted in Italy.

— Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Sister Daphne belongs to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an LGBTQ+ group made up mostly of people who dress flamboyantly as nuns.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

Definition of flamboyantly

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This is an absolute beast of a mobile phone, gorgeously built and thoughtfully designed to make your life easier.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026
Sandy Honig made a short film, The Weird Guy, last year that is so funny and also gorgeously shot.

— Lisa Hanawalt, The New York Review of Books, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of gorgeously

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This idea seems corroborated by the fact that a number of papers contain strikingly similar ideas and methods—as if their authors were communicating.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
The incident is strikingly similar to a May Times report that detailed how information from the scene failed to result in timely evacuations.

— Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of strikingly

Adverb

Jeon Do-yeon, who plays the family’s matriarch, is colorfully slinky as a globe-trotting party widow, a vain, compulsively seductive narcissist who macks on her daughters’ men like a Real Housewife given a villain’s edit.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
Fans of tiki bars, their goal was a web series, one that looked at the colorfully decorative tropical bars in Southern California.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

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