Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or suggestive of flowers.
- adjective Abounding in or covered with flowers.
- adjective Full of ornate or grandiloquent expressions; highly embellished.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of flowers; consisting of or abounding with blossoms: as, a flowery field.
- Adorned with figures or imitations of flowers: as, a flowery pattern.
- Richly embellished with figurative language; overwrought in figurative expression; florid: as, a flowery style.
- Synonyms See
florid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
- adjective Highly embellished with figurative language; florid.
- adjective China.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Pertaining to
flowers . - adjective
Decorated with flowers. - adjective Of a
speech or piece of writing: toocomplicated ;elaborate ; withgrandiloquent expressions ;bombastic ;verbose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
- adjective marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
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Examples
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Mr. Page laughed at what he called flowery effusions.
Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart George Madden Martin 1901
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It doesn't matter if he dressed up the culture of dependency concept in flowery talk, the concept itself has negative and stigmatising meanings that blames the individuals for their disadvantages in society.
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When he writes requests for funding projects, he puts in flowery statements about the poor thrusting their feet against the stones of Makala.
Archive 2009-04-01 Kate Fleurange 2009
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When he writes requests for funding projects, he puts in flowery statements about the poor thrusting their feet against the stones of Makala.
Cameroonian Vacay Part I: Chad and the Extreme North Kate Fleurange 2009
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The concepts of qi/chi and Eastern concepts of energy are difficult to grasp, especially when described in flowery languages that are unfamiliar.
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Sometimes, indeed, I dreamt that I wandered in flowery meadows and pleasant vales with the friends of my youth; but awoke, and found myself in a dungeon.
Chapter 6 2010
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Sometimes, indeed, I dreamt that I wandered in flowery meadows and pleasant vales with the friends of my youth; but I awoke, and found myself in a dungeon.
Chapter 23 2010
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I don't want to couch that in flowery, sugary terms, I want it to come out with an edge and the appropriate amount of anger.
Page 2 2006
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You can couch this event in flowery language all you wish, the subject remains as basic as death itself.
Panel Discussion in Ajijic on Suicide and Self-deliverance. 2004
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All the following little wood blocks were used in several toy books, sometimes with Bewick's name on the titles, and done from 1787 to 1814, in Dutch flowery and gingerbread gilt paper binding, just like Newbery series.
Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson
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