florid

flor·id  (flôrd, flr-)

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.

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[French floride, from Latin flridus, from fls, flr-, flower; see bhel-³ in Indo-European roots.]

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flo·ridi·ty (fl-rd-t, flô-), florid·ness n.

florid·ly adv.

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florid [ˈflɒrɪd]

adj

1. having a red or flushed complexion

2. excessively ornate; flowery florid architecture

3. an archaic word for flowery

[from Latin flōridus blooming]

floridity , floridness n

floridly  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	florid - elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" aureate, flamboyant fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
	2.	florid - inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" rubicund, ruddy, sanguine healthy - having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease; "a rosy healthy baby"; "staying fit and healthy"

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florid

adjective

1. flowery, high-flown, figurative, grandiloquent, euphuistic a greed for adjectives and florid writing

2. ornate, busy, flamboyant, baroque, fussy, embellished, flowery, overelaborate the cast-iron fireplace and the florid ceiling
ornate plain, bare, dull, unadorned

3. flushed, ruddy, rubicund, high-coloured, high-complexioned, blowsy He was a stout, florid man.
flushed pale, washed out, wan, pasty, bloodless, pallid, anaemic

Translations

florid [ˈflɒrɪd] ADJ [complexion] → colorado, rubicundo; [style] → florido

florid [ˈflɒrɪd] adj

[complexion] → rubicond(e)

[style] → très chargé(e)

florid

adj

(usu pej: = ornate) language → blumig, schwülstig (pej); wallpaper, tie → überladen; music, architecture → reich verziert

(= ruddy) person → rotgesichtig; face, complexion → gerötet

florid [ˈflɔːrɪd] adj (complexion) → florido/a; (style) → fiorito/a