flor·id

(flôr′ĭd, flŏr′-)

adj.

1. Flushed with rosy color; ruddy.

2. Very ornate; flowery: a florid prose style.

3. Archaic Healthy.

4. Obsolete Abounding in or covered with flowers.

[French floride, from Latin flōridus, from flōs, flōr-, flower; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

flo·rid′i·ty (flə-rĭd′ĭ-tē, flô-), flor′id·ness n.

flor′id·ly adv.

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floridity

a florid style; flowery and highly ornamented writing. See also complexion. — florid, adj.

See also: Color

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Noun

floridity - extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance"

flamboyance, floridness, showiness

elaborateness, ornateness - an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated

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As his career progressed, Lovecraft reined in some of its floridity, so that his prose became an almost mathematically precise tool in conveying the fusion of horror and science fiction that typified his later work.

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