a. | 1. | Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. |
2. | Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; | |
3. | Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; | |
4. | (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. |
Adj. | 1. | florid - elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" |