provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
adorned
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Editorial note
I work at a university and that quote has adorned my office door for few years. I love the quote.
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provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for adorned.
adjective
provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
See also: decorated
Example sentences
I work at a university and that quote has adorned my office door for few years. I love the quote.
Once adorned and worshipped by all. Your rotting flesh will serve as a reminder of the price of failure.
It could even be adorned with a . h file extension for faux-retro appearance!
Only other thing I remember is it's adorned with a picture of a girl who wearing a beret who looks like an artist.
Also live in SFour apartment is adorned with all sorts ravens paraphernalia.
It's weird to think there was a time when practically everyone had dot matrix printers and custom banners adorned every gathering…
Someone is far more likely today to live in a space adorned by modern designs mass-produced by Ikea or Target. On a separate note I just discovered startup furniture company "Joybird".
Particularly notable were the places where video cassettes adorned the walls, I never really knew what to make of that - did they just watch the TV screen all day? Nowadays I don't have books on shelves at all, whatsoever, under any circumstances.
I'm too young to have been alive in 1973 but I'm old enough to remember gawking in awe at the wall of the computer room adorned with output from the first desktop color printer I ever heard of or the first laser printer I ever saw. The example picture used was Lena.
You can't make them magically show as actual physical objects in the middle of a normal touchscreen, so maybe the screen should be broken up in several pieces and each part adorned with finger-friends around the rim. The screen would show information on what each finger-friend does and allow you to switch your mode.
A great line I heard out of a movie, 'Give me a hair cut that says I go to a job I hate, only to \nadorn my spoild wife with consumer crap, and keep my ungrateful kids adorned in expensive jeans for the next thirty years; until I get the courage to blow my head off \nwith a shotgun.' Extreme statement, but rang true with me.
To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up. [1] [1] Free speech is so last century.
A mass-produced medium-class bed isn't a magnificent hand-carved bed adorned with various and sundry Greek gods and goddesses. But the former scales, and the latter doesn't, and sitting and wringing hands about the experience lost when your bed isn't gloriously hand-carved is missing the point of the mass-produced bed quite badly."
Somewhat off-topic, but: Piet Mondrian - A Dutch painter whose distinctive grid based creations – horizontal and vertical lines upon a white background adorned with red, blue and yellow blocks – proved one of the most influential experiments with abstraction of the 20th century. I always thought of Mondrian's work as abstract until the first time I flew to the Netherlands.
On the other hand, if you know a magical company in a magical land, perhaps adorned with pastel ponies, at which I can make enough money with a low enough cost of living to retire after five or ten years to become a self-funded gentleman scientist, I'll certainly take that over graduate school. I just don't think it actually exists, as you can probably tell by the sarcasm.
The arguments adumbrated in the parent comment seem to have similar failure modes, adorned as they are with premises such as "to me, [the directive] is a foreign object I don't recognize," and "I can't even tell what that means." Someone who has never programmed before could look at some vanilla javascript and plead perplexity, but obviously this isn't an indictment of javascript itself.
Native Americans were not called "noble savages" because they seemed neat or something, but because they hunted and adorned themselves with pelts, which is something that only European aristocrats did. Personally, I prefer butchering my meat myself because of the low-quality of butchering in many mass-production facilities.
They nod in aggreement and then a party bus full of people adorned in what appears to be startup swag stop in front of the bus stop and drunkenly point out the 'hillarity' of this old naked person just sitting at a bus stop. Something that was unconventional social behaviour was treated as normal by our San Francisco loving protagonist and the drunken tech mob vocally mocked and denigrated that part of the city's identity.
To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up. This base-shoring piece ironically panders to people who've already made up their mind and are uninterested in engaging in any kind of meaningful discussion.
Whoever performs his part with most agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and" creeping, is rewarded with the blue-coloured silk; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice round about the middle; and you see few great persons about this court who arc not adorned with one of these girdles.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use adorned in a sentence?
I work at a university and that quote has adorned my office door for few years. I love the quote.
What does adorned mean?
provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
What part of speech is adorned?
adorned is commonly used as adjective.