ornamental

Definition

Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.

Etymology

From ornament + -al.

Example Sentences

• "Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles."
• "We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work."
• "There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]"

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