- flushed with red or pink; rosy; ruddy: said of the complexion
- highly decorated; gaudy; showy; ornate: a florid musical passage
- Obs. decorated with flowers; flowery
Origin of florid
Classical Latin floridus, flowery from flos, a flower
adjective
- 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.
The definition of florid is someone with a flushed complexion, or something overly complicated.
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florid
adjective
- Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.
- Very ornate; flowery: a florid prose style.
- Archaic Healthy.
- Obsolete Abounding in or covered with flowers.
Origin of florid
French floride from Latin flōridus from flōs flōr- flower ; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- flo·rid′i·ty flor′id·ness
noun
- flor′id·ly
adverb
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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.
- Former was the leading representative of the Asiatic or florid style of oratory, and, like other members of the aristocracy, such as C.Memmius and L.
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