Definitions for: Florid

[adj] elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

Webster (1913) Definition: Flor"id, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
Flower.]
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]

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.

Synonyms: aureate, fancy, flamboyant, showy

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