ornate

modif.

1. Highly decorated

   showy, flamboyant, bedight*, superficial*, curved*, flowery*, resplendent*, sumptuous*, lavish*, bespangled, many-colored*, brilliant*, parti-colored*, bright*, colored*, tinseled, jeweled, embroidered, begilt, glossy*, tessellated, burnished, polished*, gorgeous*, pompous*, stylish*, magnificent*, adorned*, festooned, trimmed, gilded, embellished, furbished, encrusted, striped*, waved, scrolled, inlaid*, illuminated*, garnished, decked, bedecked, flowered*, glowing*, vivid*, variegated*, radiant*, fine*, gay*, alluring*, dazzling, sparkling*, scintillating, shining*, flashing*, glistening, glamorous*, glittering, grotesque*, ornamented, artificial*, ostentatious*, pretentious*, flaunting*, baroque*, rococo*, gaudy*, glitzy*, tawdry*, flashy*, meretricious; *see also elaborate 1.

2. Referring to writing or speech

   adorned, ornamented, embellished, euphuistic; see elegant 3.