florid

Speech parts

1. florid - Adjective

2. florid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ruddy flamboyant sanguine aureate rubicund garnet rococo baroque burgundy dahlia claret red salmon gilt oratorical
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Antonyms

spartan wan plain pale bare bald
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Phrases with the word

less florid more florid

Anagrams

Ilford Liford

Examples

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture. Barry Hannah

flamboyant handwriting Source: Internet

the senator's florid speech Source: Internet

a ruddy complexion Source: Internet

Santa's rubicund cheeks Source: Internet

a fresh and sanguine complexion Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

floriculturally floriculture floriculturist Florida Florida amaranth Florida anise