Antonyms of adj ornate

1 sense of ornate

Sense 1
flowery, ornate -- (marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton)

INDIRECT (VIA rhetorical) -> unrhetorical -- (not rhetorical)

Similarity of adj ornate

1 sense of ornate

Sense 1
flowery, ornate -- (marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton)
       => rhetorical (vs. unrhetorical) -- (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery")