"decorative" meaning in English

See decorative in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɛk.ɹə.tɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ [General-American], [ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.ɾɪv] [General-American], /ˈdɛk.ɹə.tɪv/ [General-American], [ˈdɛk.ɹə.ɾɪv] [General-American], /ˈdek.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decorative.wav Forms: more decorative [comparative], most decorative [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin decorātus + -ive. Cognate with French décoratif. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|decorātus}} Latin decorātus, {{cognate|fr|décoratif}} French décoratif Head templates: {{en-adj}} decorative (comparative more decorative, superlative most decorative)
  1. That serves to decorate Derived forms: decorative arts, overdecorative Translations (that serves to decorate): декоративен (dekorativen) (Bulgarian), decoratiu (Catalan), 裝飾的 (Chinese Mandarin), 装饰的 (zhuāngshì de) (Chinese Mandarin), ozdobný (Czech), zdobný (Czech), okrasný (Czech), dekorační (Czech), dekorativní (Czech), dekorativ (Danish), decoratief (Dutch), koristeellinen (Finnish), koriste- (Finnish), décoratif (French), decoratîf (Friulian), decorativo [masculine] (Galician), dekorativ (German), διακοσμητικός (diakosmitikós) (Greek), dekoratív (Hungarian), maiseach (Irish), maisiúil (Irish), decorativo (Italian), അലങ്കാര (alaṅkāra) (Malayalam), dekorativ (Norwegian Bokmål), dekorativ (Norwegian Nynorsk), decoratiu (Occitan), ozdobny (Polish), dekoracyjny (Polish), dekoratywny (Polish), decorativo (Portuguese), decorativ (Romanian), декорати́вный (dekoratívnyj) (Russian), decorativo (Spanish), dekorativ (Swedish), dekoratif (Turkish), tezyinî [archaic] (Turkish)
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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɛk.ɹə.tɪv/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ [General-American], [ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.ɾɪv] [General-American], /ˈdɛk.ɹə.tɪv/ [General-American], [ˈdɛk.ɹə.ɾɪv] [General-American], /ˈdek.ə.ɹə.tɪv/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decorative.wav Forms: decoratives [plural]
Etymology: From Latin decorātus + -ive. Cognate with French décoratif. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|decorātus}} Latin decorātus, {{cognate|fr|décoratif}} French décoratif Head templates: {{en-noun}} decorative (plural decoratives)
  1. A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
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          "text": "And I’ll be honest. I’ll be honest, seeing stories like that is enough to make me glad that the Queen of England is mostly decorative now. In fact, the most relevant thing she’s done recently was announced that this week, she’s going to visit the Game of Thrones set.",
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