English Explanatory Dictionary

flowery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
  2. Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
  3. Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
  4. Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
noun
  1. Someone or something considered flowery.
  2. A flowery person.
  3. A flowery phrase or statement.
  4. A flowery decoration.
noun
  1. Diminutive of flower.
noun
  1. A place where flowers grow.

Pronunciation

/ˈflaʊəɹi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flowery.wav /ˈflaʊɹi/

Word forms

flowery flowerier more flowery floweriest most flowery flow'ry floweries

Etymology

From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.

Synonyms

flowerful bombastic verbose

Derived words

flowerily floweriness Flowery Field unflowery

Translations

German: Blumen- German: blumig Macedonian: цве́тен Portuguese: floral Portuguese: flóreo Slovene: cvéten Spanish: floral
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