Florid meaning

flôr'ĭd, flŏr'-
Flushed with red or pink; rosy; ruddy.
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Highly decorated; gaudy; showy; ornate.

A florid musical passage.

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Abounding in or covered with flowers.
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The definition of florid is someone with a flushed complexion, or something overly complicated.

An example of someone who would be described as florid is a red-faced, flushed runner whose face has turned red with exertion.

An example of something that would be described as florid is overly complex and wordy writing.

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Very ornate; flowery.

A florid prose style.

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Healthy.
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Decorated with flowers; flowery.
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Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
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Elaborately ornate; flowery.
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(of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.

Florid psychosis.

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Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
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Origin of florid

French floride from Latin flōridus from flōs flōr- flower bhel-3 in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • He had much taste and love for music, and considerable gifts as an orator of a florid type.

  • It is full of youthful enthusiasm and is written in florid language.

  • Her own account of her escape is, as usual, so florid that it provokes the question whether she was really in any danger.

  • Of the eleven churches, the most interesting is the cathedral of St Stephen, a florid, rococo edifice.

  • The robust, florid and distinctly Roman rendering of the classic, which followed the refined and attenuated treatment associated with the architecture of the brothers Adam, who died in 1792 and 1794, is the last development in England which can be regarded as a national style.

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