meaning of florid
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
4. Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
5. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senators florid
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Related Words
florid | florida | florida arrowroot | florida bean | florida gallinule | florida keys | florida pompano | florida selaginella | florida smoothhound | florida strangler fig | florida strap fern | florida water rat | florida yew | florideae | floridian | floridity | floridly | floridness |
