Flowery

Quick meaning: Flowery is an adjective meaning Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.

Meaning

Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.

More Meanings

1. Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
2. Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
3. Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
4. (informal, rare) Someone or something considered flowery.
5. (informal, rare) Diminutive of flower.
6. (rare) A place where flowers grow.

Example Sentences

He kissed her hand in a way she found just a little flowery.

Hearken these blissful birdies how they sing, / And see the freshé floweries, how they spring!”

That pottie’s too wee for six, Minnie, lassie. Go ben to the room press and you’ll see a big brown one with blue floweries on it.

At last she reached a flowery knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.

Word Forms

• flowerier
• floweriest
• flow'ry
• floweries

Synonyms for flowery

Depending on context, synonyms include flowerful, bombastic, verbose, ornate, rhetorical, flowering.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bloomy, blossomy, flowering, ornate, rhetorical, thriving.

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