Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
Flower.]
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
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Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
Taylor.
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2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish
color; as, a florid countenance.
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3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
florid eloquence.
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4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic
figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
fioriture or little ornamentations.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
florid
adj : elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate,
flamboyant, showy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "florid":
Gothic, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aureate, flamboyant, showy
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