florid
florid is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
- 2.Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
- 3.(Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- air
- alliteration
- alliterative
- altiloquence
- altiloquent
- and
- antithesis
- antithetical
- artificial
- bell
- better
- bill
- bloom
- bobbish
- body
- bombast
- bombastic
- brave
- buck
- can
- case
- clean
- cure
- daisy
- declamation
- declamatory
- elegance
- enjoy
- est
- eupepsia
- euphemism
- euphemistic
- euphuism
- euphuist
- euphuistic
- excellent
- feather
- figurative
- fine
- fire
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is florid.
- What is bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance called?
- What is embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence called?
- What is flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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