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decorative Definition

deco·ra·tive (dekə rə tiv, -ə rāt′iv)

adjective

that serves to decorate; ornamental

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decorative Synonyms

decorative

modif.

ornamental, embellishing, beautifying, florid; see beautiful 1, ornamental 1.

decorative Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • wall: Picture hooks; sooner or later, you will want to hang something decorative on the wall.

Modifies a noun

  • ironwork: Chancel roofline is lower than the nave and has decorative ironwork along the ridge.
  • motif: On some of my work there are simple impressed decorative motifs.
  • plasterwork: This intriguing example, with decorative plasterwork, is in King Street.
  • border: They could also create a decorative border for a piece of work.
  • coating: Six pairs of industrial and decorative coatings were subjected to oxygen plasma erosion and the results compared with natural exposure data.
  • tiling: Hale School ( 1873 ) is unspoiled and handsome, boasting decorative tiling, carved bargeboards and polychromatic brickwork.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: But artists Brad Goldberg, Glen Unwin and myself have tried to go beyond a purely decorative use of stone.
  • highly: A highly decorative ceiling centerpiece forms the ceiling to the lantern.
  • merely: Are images used appropriately or are they merely decorative?
  • very: This again is a county map, part of a very decorative atlas for the whole country.
  • just: KISS; ) Ben Says: February 11th, 2006 at 1:55 pm Hauke, They're pretty much just decorative.
  • only: But the visuals tho beautiful are not only decorative but syntactical.

Used with adjective complement

  • look: Mind you, assume you're there mostly to make the tea and look decorative?
  • include: Steam wallpaper stripper kit 230V For the fast and efficient removal of most types of wallpaper including decorative surfaces.
  • seem: They seem decorative rather than theological, but there is a consecration cross beneath the window.
  • remain: They remain decorative throughout the winter and together with the Lavender stop the box from looking like a sandpit.
decorative Quotes

'O! help me heaven,'she prayed,'to be decorative and to do right!'

—Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald