florid
IPA: fɫˈɔrʌd
adjective
- Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
- Elaborately ornate; flowery.
- (of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.
- (obsolete) Flourishing; in the bloom of health.
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Examples of "florid" in Sentences
- It is rapid and hectic with florid melodies.
- A word doesn't have to be long to be florid.
- Your florid sarcasm is also not appreciated.
- It quickly lent itself to floridity of style.
- It appears to be rather florid OR to begin with.
- The works of decorative art are florid in style.
- It is florid and ornamental, lavish and extravagant.
- His florid complexion was a familiar sight in the news.
- As a lover of Chekhov, I am an opponent of florid prose.
- He is big, handsome and white haired, with a florid face.
- The new building was in what may be called the florid shingle-Gothic manner.
- Anorexia or bulimia in florid or subclinical form now afflicts 40 percent of women at some time in their college career.
- The rosette is Egyptian; and the honeysuckle, which Mr. Petrie has identified as a florid variety of the lotus pattern, (44) is also distinctly Egyptian.
- LSD intoxication is characterized by florid visual distortions—arrays of colors, often dark green or brown; dramatic changes in the shapes or sizes of familiar objects—and overwhelming delusions of omnipotence.
- I did a similar thing when I was trying to ground my prose style on a scale of "simple" to "florid" - read a couple of my favorite books and marked them up to figure out how to place myself on that scale in a spot I liked.
- She insisted upon being stabbed on the stage, and she had rigged up a kitchen carving-knife with a handle of gilt paper, ornamented with various breastpins of the girls, which was celebrated in florid terms in her part of the drama as a Tyrian dagger.
- What with his haste and a certain dash, which, according to our mood, we may call florid or splendid, he seems to stand among poets where Rubens does among painters, -- greater, perhaps, as a colorist than an artist, yet great here also, if we compare him with any but the first.
- Gildas 132 describes in florid language the improvements of agriculture, the foreign trade which flowed with every tide into the Thames and the Severn the solid and lofty construction of public and private edifices; he accuses the sinful luxury of the British people; of a people, according to the same writer, ignorant of the most simple arts, and incapable, without the aid of the Romans, of providing walls of stone, or weapons of iron, for the defence of their native land.
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