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ornateness

ornateness noun: the state of being ornate.

Noun

ornateness (countable and uncountable, plural ornatenesses)

  1. The state of being ornate.
    • From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 116

ornateness meaning in Urdu

ornateness in Urdu

رنگینی

Forms of ornateness

pluralornatenesses

Origin of ornateness

From ornate + -ness.

Questions about ornateness

What does ornateness mean?
Ornateness means the state of being ornate.
What is ornateness in Urdu?
Ornateness in Urdu is رنگینی. See Ornateness meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ornateness?
Ornateness is a noun.
What is the plural of ornateness?
The plural of ornateness is ornatenesses.

Words near ornateness in the dictionary

  1. ornate shrews
  2. ornate tinamou
  3. ornate tinamous
  4. ornated
  5. ornately
  6. ornateness
  7. ornatenesses
  8. ornates
  9. ornatest
  10. ornating
  11. ornative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ornateness (page history and authors); ornateness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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