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mounted

mounted

5.3
Decorated with metal or other material as part of its design
  • adjective
  • /ˈmaʊntɪd/
translation icon : montado
  • The mounted display of butterflies captivated everyone at the museum.

Examples

  • He admired the mounted artwork that adorned the gallery walls.

  • I thought it was like stuffed and mounted in South Dakota.

  • The mounted deer head adds a rustic touch to the cabin's decor.

Synonyms

decorated
vsmounted
2.7

Covered with small things that make something look more beautiful

is used for ornaments added as part of the object's structure
adorned
vsmounted
3.9

A thing with decorations like jewels or banners to make it look more beautiful

is applied when the added material is part of the object's structure

Antonyms

plain
50 2.5

Not attractive to look at

unadorned
6 5.1

Plain in appearance with no decoration

Compounds

Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • Canadian
4 3.3

Canada's national police force that enforces federal laws across the country

How Ornate

ornate
  • Literature
26 7.0
decorated
2.7
mounted
5.3
trimmed
1.0
plain
208 1.0

Surface Forms

mounted positive

Morphology

mounted = mount (transparent) = mount + ed

The adjectival use ('equipped with or fixed to a mount/ornament') follows directly from 'mount' + '-ed' and is inferable from the base verb.

Etymology

Mounted comes from the verb mount, the same root as mountain ('a large hill'), and it keeps the idea of putting something 'on top' as part of another object. So when something is gold-mounted or brass-mounted, it is decorated or fitted with that material.