Unornamental

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not ornamental.

    "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."

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From un- + ornamental.

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