What's the difference between flamboyant and florid?

Flamboyant


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (2) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
  • (3) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
  • (4) Everyone has been part of it, regardless of whether you’re a dirty metalhead or a flamboyant pop fan.” • This article was amended on 1 June 2017.
  • (5) Borno has always been known for having the most flamboyant and colourful weddings,” she said.
  • (6) It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write.
  • (7) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
  • (8) Most striking was the .50 correlation for females between flamboyant personality disorder scores and visits to the family doctor for mental health reasons.
  • (9) Wilde, however, with his high earnings and his flamboyance, made of precariousness something aristocratic; he was, if you’ll forgive the coinage, a precaristocrat.
  • (10) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (11) When I was coming out I was watching things like Will and Grace , I thought that was the model I had to aspire to – being rich or flamboyant.
  • (12) So whether we look at this as criminal irresponsibility or a simple bad run from a flamboyant high roller, we should be able to agree that he didn't provide much of a service.
  • (13) La Tuta captured: Mexico's flamboyant primary teacher turned drug kingpin Read more In recent days the Mexican government has celebrated the capture of two top cartel suspects: on Wednesday Omar Treviño Morales, the leader of the notoriously brutal Zetas drug cartel, was caught in the northern city of Monterrey .
  • (14) Arnaud Montebourg, the former economy minister and flamboyant ex-lawyer who had also run on a leftwing ticket, was eliminated in the first round, with around 18%.
  • (15) Of course there was, and still is, wild hedonism among some of the more flamboyant and brash members of the trading community, but focusing on the outliers is no way to properly judge the majority of the industry.
  • (16) A jeepney in Manila: US military 4x4s left over from world war II have been converted, often flamboyantly, into the most popular form of transport in the city.
  • (17) Manchester United ,a club besotted with its flamboyant heritage, could not produce an evening's worth of flawless security.They fell short by seconds and so tumbled out of the Champions League on a 3 -2 aggregate.Sir Alex Ferguson's team had been ahead on the away-goal rule as this match entered its last minute.
  • (18) In "Sylvia's flamboyant imagination, the EST [electric shock treatment] gear resembled some kind of medieval torture equipment," says Gordon Lameyer.
  • (19) Kabuki as we see it today - in, for example, Shunkan or The Scene on Devil's Island, one of the greatest in the repertoire - is action-packed, scenically thrilling and histrionically flamboyant.
  • (20) Extending his charm offensive to Washington DC, the flamboyant finance minister held talks with senior administration officials after meeting IMF managing director Christine Lagarde and attempting to allay fears of an imminent Greek default.

Florid


Definition:

  • (a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
  • (a.) Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
  • (a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
  • (a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
  • (2) They always indicate a florid intestinal attack or a relapse after previous intestinal resection.
  • (3) In these cases, 2,9% were revealed as florid or healed lymph node invasions.
  • (4) In young males, mammary tissue is generally more florid than in females of the same age.
  • (5) Pericardial involvement was the first and almost only manifestation of brucellosis in the first patient while in the second, a significant pericardial effusion was discovered on a routine echocardiogram performed in a patient with clinically florid brucellosis.
  • (6) 11.30am: Those playing "Leveson bingo" with Robert Jay QC 's florid language might like to note that he has so far used the word "adventitious" .
  • (7) In this study, 224 cases (92.5%) were nonproliferative disease, mostly adenosis (40.1%), and 18 cases (7.5%) were proliferative disease, which consisted of moderate to florid hyperplasia and epitheliosis.
  • (8) Histology and immunohistochemistry demonstrate a florid T-cell and histiocytic reaction associated with necrotic areas which must be carefully distinguished from malignant lymphoma.
  • (9) Electronmicroscopically, in the florid state, destruction of small-bowel epithelial cells was observed, mostly in the Lieberkühn's crypts.
  • (10) In each instance (one year and three years after onset of INS), a second renal biopsy showed transformation of the membranous glomerular lesion to a more florid type with glomerular subendothelial dense deposits.
  • (11) The vitrectomies were performed for progressive fibrovascular proliferation that caused epiretinal membranes, vitreopapillary traction, florid neovascularization, or subhyaloid hemorrhage, with or without substantial preoperative visual loss.
  • (12) After multiple childhood laryngoscopies and a tracheotomy, a 54-year-old, 30-pack per year smoker, who had never received radiation therapy, developed a florid exophytic transglottic squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (13) In a rather florid letter with classical, literary and historical references, he told her: "You, I already know from happy experience, will not be cruel to my tender flame … As I think of you I shall learn to love you more.
  • (14) The lesions develop into multilating sclerosis with progressive loss of the florid lesions.
  • (15) The pancreas shows progressive interstitial fibrosis and a florid acinoductular metaplasia, during which acinar cells appear to degranulate, dedifferentiate, and assume characteristics of intercalated or centroacinar duct cells.
  • (16) The patient with the most florid bilateral disease subsequently developed Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
  • (17) She had bilateral total (internal and external) ophthalmoplegia, a left-sided seventh cranial nerve palsy, and florid bilateral papilledema.
  • (18) At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".
  • (19) David Irving, florid in pinstripe suit and bouffant hair, has a PC for company but no-one else.
  • (20) Many of these hamartomatous changes were closely associated topographically with florid neoplastic lesions.