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ornamentally

ornamentally adverb: in an ornamental way.

Adverb

ornamentally (comparative more ornamentally, superlative most ornamentally)

  1. In an ornamental way.
    • a great heavy, many-armed candlesticklike thing which sits ornamentally in the center of the table1993, Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew
    Synonyms:
    decoratively

Synonyms of ornamentally

Forms of ornamentally

comparativemore ornamentally
superlativemost ornamentally

Origin of ornamentally

From ornamental + -ly.

Words formed from ornamentally

Questions about ornamentally

What does ornamentally mean?
Ornamentally means in an ornamental way.
What part of speech is ornamentally?
Ornamentally is an adverb.

Words near ornamentally in the dictionary

  1. ornamentality
  2. ornamentalize
  3. ornamentalized
  4. ornamentalizes
  5. ornamentalizing
  6. ornamentally
  7. ornamentalness
  8. ornamentals
  9. ornamentary
  10. ornamentation
  11. ornamentational

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