'Florid' definitions:
Definition of 'florid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, florid, flamboyant]
adjective
Definition of 'Florid'
From: GCIDE
- Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower.]
- 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'florid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adorned,
- arabesque,
- aureate,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- bizarre,
- blooming,
- bloomy,
- blossoming,
- blowzed,
- blowzy,
- bombastic,
- brain-born,
- burnt,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- dream-built,
- efflorescent,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fanciful,
- fancy,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- floral,
- floreate,
- florescent,
- floriate,
- floriated,
- floricultural,
- flowered,
- flowering,
- flowery,
- flush,
- flushed,
- frilly,
- full-blooded,
- fussy,
- garden,
- glowing,
- Gothic,
- grandiloquent,
- grotesque,
- hectic,
- high-wrought,
- horticultural,
- hortulan,
- in bloom,
- in blossom,
- in flower,
- inflorescent,
- labored,
- luscious,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- maggoty,
- magniloquent,
- moresque,
- multiflorous,
- notional,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- outlandish,
- overblown,
- overcharged,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- picturesque,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- purple,
- radiciflorous,
- red-complexioned,
- red-faced,
- red-fleshed,
- rhizanthous,
- rich,
- rococo,
- rosy,
- rosy-cheeked,
- rubicund,
- ruddy,
- ruddy-complexioned,
- ruddy-faced,
- sanguine,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sunburned,
- uniflorous,
- whimsical,
- wild