Found 2 items, similar to Florid.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: florid florid adj : elaborately or excessively ornamented; “flamboyant handwriting”; “the senator's florid speech” [syn: aureate, flamboyant, showy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: 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]