'Flowery' definitions:
Definition of 'flowery'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine"
adjective
Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: flowery, ornate]
Definition of 'Flowery'
From: GCIDE
- Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
- 1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The flowery kingdom, China. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flowery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adorned,
- affected,
- allusive,
- ambrosial,
- arabesque,
- aromatic,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- balmy,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- blooming,
- bloomy,
- blossoming,
- bombastic,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- diffuse,
- efflorescent,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- essenced,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- floral,
- floreate,
- florescent,
- floriate,
- floriated,
- floricultural,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowering,
- fragrant,
- frilly,
- fruity,
- fussy,
- garden,
- Gongoristic,
- grandiloquent,
- high-flown,
- high-wrought,
- horticultural,
- hortulan,
- in bloom,
- in blossom,
- in flower,
- incense-breathing,
- inflated,
- inflorescent,
- labored,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- metaphorical,
- moresque,
- multiflorous,
- musky,
- odorate,
- odoriferous,
- odorous,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overcharged,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- perfumed,
- perfumy,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prolix,
- purple,
- radiciflorous,
- redolent,
- redundant,
- referential,
- rhizanthous,
- rich,
- rococo,
- savory,
- scented,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- spicy,
- sweet,
- sweet-scented,
- sweet-smelling,
- swollen,
- thuriferous,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- uniflorous,
- verbose,
- wordy