florid
Americanadjective
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reddish; ruddy; rosy.
a florid complexion.
- Antonyms:
- pale
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flowery; excessively ornate; showy.
florid writing.
- Synonyms:
- gaudy, flash, rococo, grandiloquent, flamboyant
- Antonyms:
- unaffected, simple, plain
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Obsolete. abounding in or consisting of flowers.
adjective
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having a red or flushed complexion
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excessively ornate; flowery
florid architecture
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an archaic word for flowery
Other Word Forms
- floridity noun
- floridly adverb
- floridness noun
- overflorid adjective
- overfloridly adverb
- overfloridness noun
- unflorid adjective
Etymology
Origin of florid
1635–45; < Latin flōridus, equivalent to flōr ( ēre ) to bloom ( florescence ) + -idus -id 4
Example Sentences
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Early in 2024, taggers began turning its skyscrapers into canvases for florid graffiti art.
From Los Angeles Times
The inclusion of Mr. Dominé’s florid prose and his fellow citizens’ good manners are parts of what makes “Glitterball” a supremely creative example of creative documentary.
Despite that florid language, the indictment against Maduro mostly related to money laundering and corruption.
From Salon
The gold-painted dome ceiling has a florid original mural of angels that Trinity Broadcasting founder Paul Crouch called “Orange County’s own Sistine Chapel.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Nile is an unapologetically florid character,” Danes says of Nile.
From Los Angeles Times
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