Antonyms for ornament
ˈɔr nə mənt; -ˌmɛnt, -məntor·na·ment

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1. ornament

   To embellish is to brighten and enliven by adding something that is not necessarily or very closely connected with that to which it is added; to illustrate is to add something so far like in kind as to cast a side-light upon the principal matter. An author embellishes his narrative with fine descriptions, the artist illustrates it with beautiful engravings, the binder gilds and decorates the volume. Garnish is on a lower plane; as, the feast was garnished with flowers. Deck and bedeck are commonly said of apparel; as, a mother bedecks her daughter with silk and jewels. To adorn and to ornament alike signify to add that which makes anything beautiful and attractive, but ornament is more exclusively on the material plane; as, the gateway was ornamented with delicate carving. Adorn is more lofty and spiritual, referring to a beauty which is not material, and can not be put on by ornaments or decorations, but seems in perfect harmony and unity with that to which it adds a grace; if we say, the gateway was adorned with beautiful carving, we imply a unity and loftiness of design such as ornamented can not express. We say of some admirable scholar or statesman, "he touched nothing that he did not adorn."

   At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
   His looks adorned the venerable place.
   

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 178.

   Antonyms:
   deface, deform, disfigure, mar, spoil

   Synonyms:
   adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, illustrate

   Preposition:
   Adorn his temples with a coronet.

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1. ornamentnoun

   Antonyms:
   disgrace, brand, disfigurement

   Synonyms:
   decoration, embellishment

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1. decoration, ornament, ornamentationverb

   something used to beautify

   Synonyms:
   laurel wreath, ornamentation, medal, decoration, palm, ribbon, embellishment, medallion

2. decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautifyverb

   make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

   "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

   Synonyms:
   fancify, grace, dramatise, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, beautify, pad, dramatize, invest

3. ornamentverb

   be an ornament to

   "stars ornamented the Christmas tree"

   Synonyms:
   grace, beautify, decorate, embellish, adorn

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1. ornamentnoun

   Synonyms:
   decoration, embellishment, adornment, garniture, ornamentation, parure

2. ornamentverb

   Synonyms:
   decorate, embellish, garnish, bedeck, grace, beautify

How to use ornament in a sentence?

1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   Silence is an ornament which is visible from the inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

2. Joseph Addison:

   Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

3. Katie McBride Newman:

   She comes very dramatically into the dining room and goes,' Mama, that ornament scared me,' then she bursts into tears.

4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind.

5. Cicero:

   He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

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