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.

Compare florid with other words:

florid vs. ostentatious

elaborate vs. florid

baroque vs. florid

florid vs. floridity

floral vs. florid

florid vs. flourish

florid vs. floridly

florid vs. floridness

florid vs. psychosis

florid vs. flowery

florid vs. ornate

florid vs. ruddy

colour vs. florid

florid vs. red

florid vs. rosy

bombastic vs. florid

florid vs. sesquipedalian

florid vs. flower

flamboyant vs. florid