flowery

Adj

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
2. Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
3. Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
4. Melodramatic, overexaggerated.

Noun

1. (informal, rare) Someone or something considered flowery.
2. (informal, rare) Someone or something considered flowery.
3. (informal, rare) Someone or something considered flowery.

Noun

Diminutive of flower.

Noun

A place where flowers grow.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈflaʊəɹi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: floury

In summary

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.

Synonyms

floral

florid

ornate

blooming

gorgeous

rhetorical

flowered

flowering

frilly

fussy

gaudy

mannered

polished

pretentious

refined

colorific

affected

flower-patterned

brilliant

dazzling

fanciful

fancy

flourishing

Translations

blumig

florido

florido

fleuri

tumturak

çiçekli

floral

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ανθηρός

kwiatowy

floreado

Gepränge

unnatürlich

in Blüte

Blumen-

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