Synonyms for ornament
ˈɔr nə mənt; -ˌmɛnt, -məntor·na·ment

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1. ornament

   To embellish is to brighten and enliven by adding something that is not necessarily or very closely connected with that to which it is added; to illustrate is to add something so far like in kind as to cast a side-light upon the principal matter. An author embellishes his narrative with fine descriptions, the artist illustrates it with beautiful engravings, the binder gilds and decorates the volume. Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers. Deck and bedeck are commonly said of apparel; as, a mother bedecks her daughter with silk and jewels. To adorn and to ornament alike signify to add that which makes anything beautiful and attractive, but ornament is more exclusively on the material plane; as, the gateway was ornamented with delicate carving. Adorn is more lofty and spiritual, referring to a beauty which is not material, and can not be put on by ornaments or decorations, but seems in perfect harmony and unity with that to which it adds a grace; if we say, the gateway was adorned with beautiful carving, we imply a unity and loftiness of design such as ornamented can not express. We say of some admirable scholar or statesman, "he touched nothing that he did not adorn."

   At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
   His looks adorned the venerable place.
   

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 178.

   Synonyms:
   adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate

   Antonyms:
   deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoil

   Preposition:
   Adorn his temples with a coronet.

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1. ornamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   decoration, embellishment

   Antonyms:
   disgrace, brand, disfigurement

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1. decoration, ornament, ornamentationverb

   something used to beautify

   Synonyms:
   laurel wreath, ornamentation, medal, decoration, palm, ribbon, embellishment, medallion

2. decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautifyverb

   make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

   "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, beautify, pad, dramatize, invest

3. ornamentverb

   be an ornament to

   "stars ornamented the Christmas tree"

   Synonyms:
   grace, beautify, decorate, embellish, adorn

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1. ornamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   embellishment, decoration, adornment

2. ornamentverb

   Synonyms:
   decorate, adorn, embellish, beautify, garnish, bedeck, grace, emblazon

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1. ornamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   decoration, embellishment, adornment, garniture, ornamentation, parure

2. ornamentverb

   Synonyms:
   decorate, embellish, garnish, bedeck, grace, beautify

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1. List of paraphrases for "ornament":

   ornamental, decoration, ornamentation, embellishment, adornment, florida, decorating

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1. Cicero:

   He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

2. Alanis Morissette:

   I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

3. Edmund Burke:

   Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

4. David Mamet:

   An unidentified man in nailhead denim was fished out of the Chicago River, wrapped in chains locked to a Duesenberg hood ornament.

5. The Hitopadesa:

   A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no ornaments.