About The Word Florid
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Florid
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What's The Definition Of Florid?
[adj] elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Florid: aureate | fancy | flamboyant | showy Related Terms | Find terms related to Florid: adorned | arabesque | aureate | baroque | befrilled | bizarre | blooming | bloomy | blossoming | blowzed | blowzy | bombastic | brain-born | burnt | busy | chichi | colored | declamatory | decorated | dream-built | efflorescent | elaborate | elegant | embellished | embroidered | euphuistic | extravagant | fanciful | fancy | fancy-born | fancy-built | fancy-woven | fantasque | fantastic | festooned | figurative | figured | fine | flamboyant | floral | floreate | florescent | floriate | floriated | floricultural | flowered | flowering | flowery | flush | flushed | frilly | full-blooded | fussy | garden | glowing | Gothic | grandiloquent | grotesque | hectic | high-wrought | horticultural | hortulan | in bloom | in blossom | in flower | inflorescent | labored | luscious | lush | luxuriant | luxurious | maggoty | magniloquent | moresque | multiflorous | notional | ornate | ostentatious | outlandish | overblown | overcharged | overelaborate | overelegant | overlabored | overloaded | overworked | overwrought | picturesque | preposterous | pretentious | pretty-pretty | purple | radiciflorous | red-complexioned | red-faced | red-fleshed | rhizanthous | rich | rococo | rosy | rosy-cheeked | rubicund | ruddy | ruddy-complexioned | ruddy-faced | sanguine | showy | sonorous | sunburned | uniflorous | whimsical | wild See Also | Florid In Webster's Dictionary \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
{Flower}.]
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
Taylor.
2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish
color; as, a florid countenance.
3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
florid eloquence.
4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic
figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
fioriture or little ornamentations.
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