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flowery![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
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2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
flowery style. --Milton.
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The flowery kingdom, China.
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Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
flowery
adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery
hat"; "flowery wine"
2: 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]
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 114 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowery": Gongoristic, 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, 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 Matching Word(s) Lowery Flower Flotery flower flowers Flowers
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