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decorative
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Word definitions for decorative in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French decoratif , from decorat- , past participle stem of Latin decorare (see decorate ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. That serves to decorate n. A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative" [syn: cosmetic , ornamental ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decorative \Dec"o*ra*tive\ (d[e^]k"[-o]*r[.a]*t[i^]v or d[e^]k"[-o]*r[asl]*t[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. d['e]coratif.] Suited to decorate or embellish; adorning. -- Dec"o*ra*tive*ness , n. Decorative art , fine art which has for its end ornamentation, rather ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB purely ▪ These arches are purely decorative , so no cutting of brickwork is needed. ▪ Other Simlawood items are purely decorative . very ▪ These wheels were very good workers and many replicas have been built; ...
Usage examples of decorative.
Africa, to the work in wood and metal of the Bambara of the upper Niger and a host of others: the products of an African consciousness and cosmogony and care for the decorative arts of life that made, and make, a world of their own.
The blooms are large and brilliant in colour, and their shaggy forms give them an effect which is decorative both in the garden and vase.
The Bottoms was so crowded with an array of objects in decorative brass that Rosie had difficulty locating the bell-push at first.
During our long sea war with Landsing, the cavalla had been seen as a decorative branch of our military, displaying the buffed and polished family armor and riding their plumed horses for ceremonial occasions, but doing little more.
Anywhere else it would have been preposterous as a decorative presentment, but here, in this little nook where the coureurs de bois, the halfbreeds, the traders and the missionaries had founded a centre of assembly, it was the best possible expression in the life so formed at hap-hazard, and so controlled by the coarsest and narrowest influences.
The two men were clad in raggedy snowmobile suits that smelled of crankcase oil and bore ten years of decorative sew-on Quest patches.
A decorative, gauzy material demurely filled in the decolletage of the fitted bodice that dipped to a deep vee in front.
Anglo-Saxon decorative art employed in the south of England an animal-style influenced by the Irish, and in the north a particularly fruitful motif borrowed from Syrian craftsmen who had immigrated to northern England -- namely regularly curving ornament, vine-scroll with animals -- either leaping, climbing, or flying -- decoratively disposed within it.
He was an outdoor dilletante, tan and fit and urbane all at the same time, an eminently decorative guest.
From the castle below the comforting, muted noise of soldiers, hooves on cobblestones, an occasional throaty laugh wafting upwards with the smoke and smells of the cooking fires through the decorative, bowman openings in the vast walls, not yet shuttered against the night chill.
The first room is an armoury, in which all kinds of arms are arranged, in a decorative way, covering the ceiling and the walls with strange patterns.
All the frescos, mosaics, and altar-pieces had a decorative motive in their coloring and setting.
The head-ends of the tanks protruded a couple of feet from their shoulder-height plyboard cubicles, like stupidly baroque brass coffins covered with cheap decorative detail.
Yet the lower reaches of the garden, the fantastically sculpted ice fountains, and the decorative benches all showed signs of malicious vandalism.
Either as a cut flower, or a decorative subject for the borders or rockwork, it is a first-rate plant, being neat and showy.