Florid

a.	1.	Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. - Jer. Taylor.
	2.	Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
	3.	Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
	4.	(Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

Adj.

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florid - elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" Synonyms: aureate, flamboyant, showy

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-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, 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

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