Florid

Word FLORID
Character 6
Hyphenation flor id
Pronunciations /ˈflɒɹɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Florid"

What do we mean by florid?

Flushed with rosy color; ruddy. adjective

Very ornate; flowery. adjective

Healthy. adjective

Abounding in or covered with flowers. adjective

Covered or abounding with flowers; flowery; blooming.

Bright in color; specifically, flushed with red; of a lively red color: as, a florid countenance; a florid cheek.

Flowery in appearance or effect; highly embellished or decorated; loaded with ornamentation: as, florid architecture; florid music.

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched with lively figures; highly ornate; overwrought in expression: as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. adjective

Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color. adjective

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate adjective

Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. adjective

Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy. adjective

Elaborately ornate; flowery. adjective

In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state. adjective

Elaborately or excessively ornamented adjective

Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life adjective

Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.

Elaborately ornate; flowery.

(of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.

Flourishing; in the bloom of health.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Florid

The word "florid" in example sentences

Anorexia or bulimia in florid or subclinical form now afflicts 40 percent of women at some time in their college career. ❋ Unknown (2006)

LSD intoxication is characterized by florid visual distortions—arrays of colors, often dark green or brown; dramatic changes in the shapes or sizes of familiar objects—and overwhelming delusions of omnipotence. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1987)

She insisted upon being stabbed on the stage, and she had rigged up a kitchen carving-knife with a handle of gilt paper, ornamented with various breastpins of the girls, which was celebrated in florid terms in her part of the drama as a Tyrian dagger. ❋ Unknown (1869)

Gildas 132 describes in florid language the improvements of agriculture, the foreign trade which flowed with every tide into the Thames and the Severn the solid and lofty construction of public and private edifices; he accuses the sinful luxury of the British people; of a people, according to the same writer, ignorant of the most simple arts, and incapable, without the aid of the Romans, of providing walls of stone, or weapons of iron, for the defence of their native land. ❋ Unknown (1206)

I did a similar thing when I was trying to ground my prose style on a scale of "simple" to "florid" - read a couple of my favorite books and marked them up to figure out how to place myself on that scale in a spot I liked. ❋ Janice Hardy (2010)

The new building was in what may be called the florid shingle-Gothic manner. ❋ Various (N/A)

The rosette is Egyptian; and the honeysuckle, which Mr. Petrie has identified as a florid variety of the lotus pattern, (44) is also distinctly Egyptian. ❋ Unknown (1891)

What with his haste and a certain dash, which, according to our mood, we may call florid or splendid, he seems to stand among poets where Rubens does among painters, -- greater, perhaps, as a colorist than an artist, yet great here also, if we compare him with any but the first. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

This early video traffics in some of the elements visuals, as well as what Ars Technica has called a "florid bombasticism" of what would become the Anonymous image. ❋ Rob Walker (2011)

In like manner in the later, which has been called the florid style of Gothic architecture, there are buildings astonishingly rich and elaborate; but we find this excess of ornament supported and rendered practicable by a principle of simplicity in design and construction. ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)

So how is it that Rahm rates this sort of "florid" (a word Brooks finds to be so nice he uses it twice!) send off? ❋ Jason Linkins (2010)

I enthusiastically share your fondness for Hugo and decry those who express displeasure at his "florid" and "flamboyant" prose, i.e., his perfection of the Romantic style. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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