ornate
or-NATEadjMeaning covered with fancy, detailed decoration
Memory hook ORNA-mented all over. The king’s throne is covered in ornaments: golden curls, jewels, carved lions and a velvet cushion. It is ornate.
The old theater had an ornate ceiling painted gold and carved with vines and birds.
In context Grandma’s clock was ornate, with gilded vines curling around its face and tiny brass birds on top; the new clock beside it was a plain white circle.
Similar elaborate, fancy, decorated, showy
Opposite plain, simple, austere
From Latin ornatus, “decorated,” from ornare (to adorn, to furnish). Ornament comes from the same root.