Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details:
— Ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato.

synonym: flowery.

Roget 577: ornament etc. v.; beautified etc. 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic^†, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent^†; sesquipedal^†, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.    antithetical, alliterative; figurative etc. 521; artificial etc. (inelegant) 579.    ... show more

Roget 847: ornamented, beautified etc. v.; ornate, rich, gilt, begilt^†, tesselated, festooned; champleve [Fr.], cloisonne, topiary.    smart, gay, trickly^†, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence^†, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight^†, well-groomed.    in full dress etc. (fashion) 852; dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue [Fr.], en grande toilette [Fr.]; in best bib and tucker, endimanche [Fr.].    showy, flashy; gaudy etc. (vulgar) 851; garish, gairish^†; gorgeous.    ornamental, decorative; becoming etc. (accordant) 23.    ... show more