florid as an adjective: - 1
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florid
adjective
1 florid
Elaborately or excessively ornamented:
— The senator's florid speech.
synonyms: aureate, flamboyant.
Roget 577:
ornament
etc.
v.;
beautified
etc.
847;
ornate,
florid,
rich,
flowery;
euphuistic†,
euphemistic;
sonorous;
high-sounding,
big-sounding;
inflated,
swelling,
tumid;
turgid,
turgescent;
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted;
orotund;
high flown,
high flowing;
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory;
grandiose;
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent†;
sesquipedal†,
sesquipedalian;
Johnsonian,
mouthy;
bombastic;
fustian;
frothy,
flashy,
flaming.
antithetical,
alliterative;
figurative
etc.
521;
artificial
etc.
(inelegant)
579.
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Roget 654:
healthy,
healthful;
in health
etc.
n.;
well,
sound,
hearty,
hale,
fresh,
green,
whole;
florid,
flush,
hardy,
stanch,
staunch,
brave,
robust,
vigorous,
weatherproof.
unscathed,
uninjured,
unmaimed†,
unmarred,
untainted;
sound of wind and limb,
safe and sound.
on one's legs;
sound as a roach,
sound as a bell;
fresh as a daisy,
fresh as a rose,
fresh as April†;
hearty as a buck;
in fine feather,
in high feather;
in good case,
in full bloom;
pretty bobbish†,
tolerably well,
as well as can be expected.
sanitary
etc.
(health-giving)
656;
sanatory
etc.
(remedial)
662†.
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Roget 428:
colored
etc.
v.;
colorific†,
tingent†,
tinctorial†;
chromatic,
prismatic;
full-colored,
high-colored,
deep-colored;
doubly-dyed;
polychromatic;
chromatogenous†;
tingible†.
bright,
vivid,
intense,
deep;
fresh,
unfaded†;
rich,
gorgeous;
gay.
gaudy,
florid;
gay,
garish;
rainbow-colored,
multihued;
showy,
flaunting,
flashy;
raw,
crude;
glaring,
flaring;
discordant,
inharmonious.
mellow,
pastel,
harmonious,
pearly,
sweet,
delicate,
tender,
refined.
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Polish: kwiecisty
2 florid
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life.
synonyms: rubicund, ruddy, sanguine.
Roget 434:
red
etc.
n.,
reddish;
rufous,
ruddy,
florid,
incarnadine,
sanguine;
rosy,
roseate;
blowzy,
blowed†;
burnt;
rubicund,
rubiform†;
lurid,
stammell blood red†;
russet buff,
murrey†,
carroty†,
sorrel,
lateritious†;
rubineous†,
rubricate,
rubricose†,
rufulous†.
rose-colored,
ruby-colored,
cherry-colored,
claret-colored,
flame-colored,
flesh-colored,
peach-colored,
salmon-colored,
brick-colored,
brick-colored,
dust-colored.
blushing
etc.
v.;
erubescent†;
reddened
etc.
v..
red as fire,
red as blood,
red as scarlet,
red as a turkey cock,
red as a lobster;
warm,
hot;
foxy.
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Moby thesaurus: 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, 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, ornate, 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 ... show more.
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