Antonyms for adornments


Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-dawrn-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : əˈdɔrn mənt


Definition of adornments

Origin :
  • late 14c., "act of adorning;" also "a thing which adorns;" from Old French aornement "ornament, decoration," from aorner (see adorn).
  • noun decorating, enhancing
  • noun a decoration
Example sentences :
  • Note the texture and color range of the adornments and artifacts.
  • Extract from : « Zero Data » by Charles Saphro
  • Twas with no desire to indulge his uncle that he had managed these adornments.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Shining Light » by Norman Duncan
  • Why the same remark should not apply to their colours and adornments is not obvious.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
  • What Captain Cook offered the Polynesians: weapons, clothes, adornments.
  • Extract from : « The History of London » by Walter Besant
  • She marked with envious malignity the luxury and magnificence of its adornments.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby
  • Nancy would exclaim when all these adornments were complete.
  • Extract from : « The Hawthorns » by Amy Walton
  • In addition to its dress, they wear the usual Indian adornments.
  • Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
  • In the camp of the Seventy-seventh, the adornments were profuse and beautiful.
  • Extract from : « Three Years in the Sixth Corps » by George T. Stevens
  • He is the type of their excellences, as is Nero the model of their power and their adornments.
  • Extract from : « If, Yes and Perhaps » by Edward Everett Hale
  • But without the coral set I should not have been able to go; for, as you know, I had no adornments.
  • Extract from : « Fifty-Two Stories For Girls » by Various

Synonyms for adornments

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