Florid
['flɒrɪd] or ['flɔrɪd]
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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. [Poetical.] Flowery.[2]. Rubicund, of a bright red color.[3]. Ornate, rhetorical, figurative, highly embellished.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rubicund, flowery, sanguine, ornate, overwrought, meretricious
ANT:Pallid, exsanguineous, bare, unadorned, nude, sober, chaste
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Examples
- Changed into a man of this sort, Dobbin found the once florid, jovial, and prosperous John Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That florid sociable personage was become more interesting to him since he had seen Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was never florid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It's the stout, florid fellows like me, that always go off first. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And so on, with a sting of satire in every fold of the florid description. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the evening she went to the piano, choosing new music of the dexterous, tuneless, florid kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was an odd, florid challenge from someone who called himself Muhammad the Prophet of God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Glenmont is a rather elaborate and florid building in Queen Anne English style, of brick, stone, and wooden beams showing on the exterior, with an abundance of gables and balconies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I wish I could see something more of colour in these cheeks; but perhaps you were never florid? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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