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Webster 1828 Edition


Unornamental

UNORNAMENT'AL

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Adj.
Not ornamental.

Definition 2024


unornamental

unornamental

English

Adjective

unornamental (comparative more unornamental, superlative most unornamental)

  1. Not ornamental.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
      I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as a useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of.