List of antonyms from "orifice" to antonyms from "ortho-doxies"


Discover our 304 antonyms available for the terms "originate, ornament, origin, ornateness, originative" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.

Definition of the day : « ornateness »

  • As in urbanity : noun elegance
  • As in elegance : noun cultivated beauty, taste
Example sentences :
  • As we should expect, there is a fairly steady movement from simplicity to ornateness.
  • Extract from : « Old Picture Books » by Alfred W. Pollard
  • There was a striving for effect, with ornateness and extravagance, and finally the art passed out entirely.
  • Extract from : « A Text-Book of the History of Painting » by John C. Van Dyke
  • The ornateness of architecture appears in the East and West in nearly equal measure.
  • Extract from : « Prowling about Panama » by George A. Miller
  • The writing masters of that time cared far more for ornateness than for verity, or even legibility.
  • Extract from : « A Captain in the Ranks » by George Cary Eggleston
  • It was the time when ornateness of figure and poeticalness of diction were regarded as essentials of style.
  • Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee
  • Some of the extra-illuminated books of this period are among the most beautiful printed books ever issued in their ornateness.
  • Extract from : « The Century of Columbus » by James J. Walsh
  • The prize tools reflected little of the ornateness apparent in the wares of most of the other exhibitors.
  • Extract from : « Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 » by Peter C. Welsh
  • The emphasis in these rhetorics on style is the same: ornateness in communication is achieved through using the figures.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes » by Richard Sherry
  • It is a sound policy to avoid the ornateness that frequently accompanies a large and unskillfully planned area.
  • Extract from : « Industrial Arts Design » by William H. Varnum
  • Tristrem repeated, utterly unimpressed by the ornateness of the novelist's remarks.
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Tristrem Varick » by Edgar Saltus