Flowery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
     1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
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     2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
        flowery style. --Milton.


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     {The flowery kingdom}, China.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flowery
       adj : marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative
             details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught
             out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: {ornate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowery":
     Gongoristic, adorned, affected, allusive, ambrosial, arabesque,
     aromatic, artificial, aureate, balmy, baroque, befrilled, blooming,
     bloomy, blossoming, bombastic, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory,
     decorated, diffuse, efflorescent, elaborate, elaborated, elegant,
     embellished, embroidered, essenced, euphuistic, fancy, festooned,
     figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate,
     florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered,
     flowering, fragrant, frilly, fruity, fussy, garden, grandiloquent,
     high-flown, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom,
     in blossom, in flower, incense-breathing, inflated, inflorescent,
     labored, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, mannered,
     metaphorical, moresque, multiflorous, musky, odorate, odoriferous,
     odorous, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overcharged,
     overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked,
     overwrought, perfumed, perfumy, picturesque, pompous,
     pretty-pretty, prolix, purple, radiciflorous, redolent, redundant,
     referential, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, savory, scented, showy,
     sonorous, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, swollen,
     thuriferous, trolatitious, tropological, uniflorous, verbose,
     wordy