ornamental
adjective
used or grown for ornament.
unornamental
-
a word derived from
ornamental.
Example Sentences
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The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there were some plain and unornamental phrases such as “Men weet nooit hoe een koe eenen haas vangt”.—This was labelled ‘proverbial expression’, and was translated, happily enough, by “The unexpected often occurs.”
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by J. Irwin Brown
In the meantime great pains are being taken with her education, and her accomplishments promise to be varied, though entirely unornamental.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
Thus the fan-tail breed has been developed until the creatures display their unornamental tail feathers with all the dignity with which a peacock shows his marvellous decorations.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
This was probably dull orange, selected as being unornamental.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
