unornamental

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adjective

Not ornamental.

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Meanings

adjectiveunornamental (comparative more unornamental, superlative most unornamental)

comparative more unornamental · superlative most unornamental

  1. Not ornamental.

    I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as a useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.

    1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Origin

From un- + ornamental.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with unornamental

environmentalrentaldentalexperimentalcontinentaldevelopmentalgentleinstrumentaldepartmentalaccidentalelementalintergovernmentaloccidentaltranscendentalnongovernmentalcoincidentallentiljudgmentalinterdepartmentaltemperamentalentalcompartmentalunsentimentalcental
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Cite this entry
APA

unornamental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unornamental

MLA

“unornamental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unornamental. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unornamental,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unornamental.

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