decorative
decorative
Definition
deco·ra·tive (dek′ə rə tiv, -ə rāt′iv)
adjective
that serves to decorate; ornamental
decorative
Synonyms
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!'
Browse dictionary entries near decorative
- Decoration Day
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