Ornate and Workaday

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Ornate adjective - Elaborately and often excessively decorated.

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Workaday is an antonym for ornate.

Nearby Words: ornament, ornately

Workaday adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

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Ornate is an antonym for workaday in topics: normal, average.

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