| Pronunciation: | | 'florid
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| Matching Terms: | | floriage, floriated, floriation, floricomous, floricultural, floriculture, floriculturist, florida, florida arrowroot, florida bean, florida gallinule, florida keys, florida pompano, florida selaginella, florida smoothhound, florida strangler fig, florida strap fern, florida water rat, florida yew, florideae, floridian, floridity, floridly, floridness, floriferous, florification, floriform, floriken, florilege, florilegium, florimer, florin, florio, florist, florist shop, florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, florist's gloxinia, florist's willow
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| | Definition: | | [adj] elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" |
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| | Synonyms: | | aureate, fancy, flamboyant, showy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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