disapproval If you describe something as florid, you disapprove of the fact that it is complicated and extravagant rather than plain and simple. florid language. = ornate
Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations
Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence
Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance
elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"