florid

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having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy
elaborately ornate; flowery
flushed with red
{a} flushed with red, red, rhetorical
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"
Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery
{s} reddish, rosy; flowery; ornate; showy
Someone who is florid always has a red face. Jacobs was a stout, florid man
florid style
overly decorative style, flowery style, ornate style
floridness
{n} a very fresh color, elegance
floridly
In a florid manner
floridly
in a florid manner; "floridly figurative prose
floridness
The quality of being florid
florid
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