Florid

florid
    adj 1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
           handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn:
           {aureate}, {florid}, {flamboyant}]
    2: inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with
       outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund
       cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion" [syn: {rubicund},
       {ruddy}, {florid}, {sanguine}]
    

Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
   {Flower}.]
   1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
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            Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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   2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish
      color; as, a florid countenance.
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   3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
      with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
      florid eloquence.
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   4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic
      figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
      fioriture or little ornamentations.
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112 Moby Thesaurus words for "florid":
      Gothic, adorned, arabesque, aureate, baroque, befrilled, bizarre,
      blooming, bloomy, blossoming, blowzed, blowzy, bombastic,
      brain-born, burnt, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory, decorated,
      dream-built, efflorescent, elaborate, elegant, embellished,
      embroidered, euphuistic, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, fancy-born,
      fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, festooned,
      figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate,
      florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, flowered,
      flowering, flowery, flush, flushed, frilly, full-blooded, fussy,
      garden, glowing, grandiloquent, grotesque, hectic, high-wrought,
      horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower,
      inflorescent, labored, luscious, lush, luxuriant, luxurious,
      maggoty, magniloquent, moresque, multiflorous, notional, ornate,
      ostentatious, outlandish, overblown, overcharged, overelaborate,
      overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked, overwrought,
      picturesque, preposterous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, purple,
      radiciflorous, red-complexioned, red-faced, red-fleshed,
      rhizanthous, rich, rococo, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy,
      ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, showy, sonorous,
      sunburned, uniflorous, whimsical, wild