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flowery

[ flou-uh-ree ]

adjective

, flow·er·i·er, flow·er·i·est.
  1. covered with or having many flowers.
  2. decorated with floral designs.
  3. rhetorically ornate or precious:

    flowery language.

    Synonyms: elaborate, showy, florid

  4. resembling a flower in fragrance:

    a Rhine wine with a flowery aroma.



flowery

/ ˈflaʊərɪ /

adjective

  1. abounding in flowers
  2. decorated with flowers or floral patterns
  3. like or suggestive of flowers

    a flowery scent

  4. (of language or style) elaborate; ornate


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfloweriness, noun

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Other Words From

  • flower·i·ly adverb
  • flower·i·ness noun
  • un·flower·y adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flowery1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; flower, -y 1

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Example Sentences

Mice infected with dengue or Zika viruses — and people infected with dengue — emit a flowery, orange-smelling chemical that tempts hungry mosquitoes, researchers report June 30 in Cell.

This explains the crumpled look of his beautiful red velvet suit paired with cowboy boots and a flowery style shirt.

The Daily Pic: Becca Albee imagines a world of flowery front pages.

Instead of just lecturing everyone in his vague flowery language, he should put some specific proposals on the table.

Literally and figuratively, their lives seemed to wander through flowery pleasure-paths.

They wound through the flowery labyrinth whose mazes were her care and delight.

The Arab bowed low before the bishop and Bouillon, and muttered some flowery compliments in his own tongue.

She was a tiny thing, in a marvellous frock and a flowery hat and a silver girdle and chatelaine.

None of your vales, nor your dews and your roses—and your flowery fields, and your myrtle groves.

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