flowery

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
flowery
    adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery
           hat"; "flowery wine"
    2: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative
       details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of
       the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: {flowery}, {ornate}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flowery \Flow"er*y\, a.
   1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
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   2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a
      flowery style. --Milton.
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   {The flowery kingdom}, China.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowery":
      Gongoristic, adorned, affected, allusive, ambrosial, arabesque,
      aromatic, artificial, aureate, balmy, baroque, befrilled, blooming,
      bloomy, blossoming, bombastic, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory,
      decorated, diffuse, efflorescent, elaborate, elaborated, elegant,
      embellished, embroidered, essenced, euphuistic, fancy, festooned,
      figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate,
      florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered,
      flowering, fragrant, frilly, fruity, fussy, garden, grandiloquent,
      high-flown, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom,
      in blossom, in flower, incense-breathing, inflated, inflorescent,
      labored, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, mannered,
      metaphorical, moresque, multiflorous, musky, odorate, odoriferous,
      odorous, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overcharged,
      overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked,
      overwrought, perfumed, perfumy, picturesque, pompous,
      pretty-pretty, prolix, purple, radiciflorous, redolent, redundant,
      referential, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, savory, scented, showy,
      sonorous, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, swollen,
      thuriferous, trolatitious, tropological, uniflorous, verbose,
      wordy

    

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