FLORID
\flˈɒɹɪd], \flˈɒɹɪd], \f_l_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_d]\
Definitions of FLORID
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
By Princeton University
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elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
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Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
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Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
By Oddity Software
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Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
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Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
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Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Floridly.
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Bright in color; flushed with red; containing flowers of rhetoric or lively figures; richly ornamental.
By Daniel Lyons
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Flushed; ruddy; flowery; ornamental.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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