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語源

From ornament +‎ -al.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɔː.nəˈmɛn.təl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɔɹ.nəˈmɛn.təl/

形容詞

ornamental (comparative more ornamental, superlative most ornamental)

1. Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.

   Synonyms: beautifying, embellishing, decorative

   Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:

     We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.

   • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 20:

     There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]

2. (of a plant, fish, etc.) Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.

   Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.

派生語

関連する語

• ornamentation
• ornamentally

名詞

ornamental (plural ornamentals)

1. An ornamental plant.
   • 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3:

     The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.