Crossword clues for florid
florid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower.]
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Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree.
--Jer. Taylor. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
(Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "strikingly beautiful," from French floride "flourishing," from Latin floridus "flowery, in bloom," from flos "flower" (see flora). Sense of "ruddy" is first recorded 1640s. Meaning "highly decorated, profusely adorned (as with flowers)" is from 1650s. Related: Floridly.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy. 2 Elaborately ornate; flowery. 3 (context of a disorder, especially mental English) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.
WordNet
adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, flamboyant, showy]
Wikipedia
Florid (literally "flowery") is a word with several usages including:
- Having a rosy complexion, ruddy
- (Of speech) Using very flowery speech with fine words and elaborate construction. See Johnsonese
- (In medicine) Occurring in an abundant or highly developed form, e.g. a florid bacterial growth.
Florid may also refer to :
- Florid, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Putnam County, Illinois, USA
- Florid cutaneous papillomatosis
- Great Wall Florid, a car
It can be a misspelling of Florida
Usage examples of "florid".
He had all but relaxed when, turning from Lady Chatham, they found themselves facing a large, rather portly gentleman with florid features.
There were different styles of rhetoricLucius Licinius Crassus Orator favored the Asianic style, more florid and dramatic than the Attic style.
Occasionally Blackie could not resist the temptation to indulge himself in a few jazzy silk ties and handkerchiefs and ascots in florid patterns and brilliant colors, but he made certain never to wear them when he was seeing Emma.
Okay, plump and florid, hair piled up into a Carolean landscape and features a thick mask of cosmetics.
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She was dark, in her thirties, with exotic, gypsylike features and a florid, overwhelming charm.
Krombold jumped from his seat and pointed an angry finger at the minicam lens that was recording his complexion going from florid to brick red.
I turned to DCI Oban, who was sitting apart, with a blank expression on his large, soft, slightly florid face.
Graham Guthrie, British resident in North Bhutan, was a big, thick-set man--gray-haired and florid, with widely opened eyes of the true fighting blue, a bristling mustache and prominent shaggy brows.
Their small topknots were fashionably askew, and their sidelocks stood out in disorderly fringes from their florid faces.
I imitated a browser, leafing through big glassine pages on a countertop easel, looking at incredibly florid stamps from improbable countries, like Ajman, Zambia, and Bangladesh.
Apart from his florid cheeks, Tebbit had seemed healthy enough three days ago.
As soon as they had delivered their presents, which were received by the proper officers, they exposed, in a florid oration, the wishes of the Roman emperor, that victory might attend the arms of the Turks, that their reign might be long and prosperous, and that a strict alliance, without envy or deceit, might forever be maintained between the two most powerful nations of the earth.
Many Yayoi pieces have no decoration at all, whereas others have bands of thinly incised geometric designs that contrast sharply in their simplicity with the typically florid patterning of Jomon pottery.
Florid carvings in stone covered expansive panels under the complex bands of dentil moldings that ran in mitered bands over the tops of the capitals.