Florid

Florid
Florid Flor"id, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower. See {Flower}.] 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance. [1913 Webster]

3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. [1913 Webster]

4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. [1913 Webster]


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  • florid — FLORÍD, Ă, florizi, de, adj. (Despre boli) Care este în plină evoluţie. – Din lat. floridus. Trimis de LauraGellner, 14.05.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  floríd adj. m., pl. florízi; f. sg. florídă, pl …   Dicționar Român

  • florid — [flôr′id, flär′id] adj. [L floridus, flowery < flos, a FLOWER] 1. flushed with red or pink; rosy; ruddy: said of the complexion 2. highly decorated; gaudy; showy; ornate [a florid musical passage] 3. Obs. decorated with flowers; flowery… …   English World dictionary

  • florid — [adj1] very elaborate aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, garnished, grandiloquent, high flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, pretentious,… …   New thesaurus

  • florid — ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a red or flushed complexion. 2) elaborately or excessively ornate or intricate: florid prose. DERIVATIVES floridity noun floridly adverb floridness noun. ORIGIN Latin floridus, from flos flower …   English terms dictionary

  • Florīd — (v. lat.), blühend, blumig …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Florīd — (lat.), blühend, blumenreich, in voller Entwickelung begriffen (auch von Krankheiten); Floridität, blühender Zustand, Blumenreichtum …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Florid — Florid, lat. deutsch, blumig, blumenreich …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • florid — (adj.) 1640s, strikingly beautiful, from Fr. floride flourishing, from L. floridus flowery, in bloom, from flos flower (see FLORA (Cf. flora)). Sense of ruddy is first recorded 1640s. Meaning profusely adorned, as with flowers, is from 1650s.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • florid — *ornate, flamboyant, rococo, baroque Analogous words: aureate, flowery, euphuistic, grandiloquent, magniloquent, *rhetorical, bombastic: sumptuous, luxurious, opulent: *showy, ostentatious, pretentious Antonyms: chaste (in style, decoration)… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • florid — adjective Etymology: Latin floridus blooming, flowery, from florēre Date: 1651 1. a. obsolete covered with flowers b. very flowery in style ; ornate < florid prose > < florid declamations >; …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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