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unornamental

unornamental adjective: not ornamental.

Adjective

unornamental (comparative more unornamental, superlative most unornamental)

  1. Not ornamental.
    • I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as a useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Forms of unornamental

comparativemore unornamental
superlativemost unornamental

Origin of unornamental

From un- + ornamental.

Words formed from unornamental

Words that rhyme with unornamental

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Questions about unornamental

What does unornamental mean?
Unornamental means not ornamental.
What part of speech is unornamental?
Unornamental is an adjective.

Words near unornamental in the dictionary

  1. unoriginately
  2. unoriginateness
  3. unorigination
  4. unoriginative
  5. unorn
  6. unornamental
  7. unornamentally
  8. unornamented
  9. unornamentedly
  10. unornate
  11. unornithological

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