Florid
Pronounced:
Floor - id
Definition:
Flowery
Meaning:
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
Pronounced:
Floor - id
Definition:
Flowery
Meaning:
1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
2. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as a florid countenance.
3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as a florid style; florid eloquence.
4. (Mus.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; flowery or little ornamentations.
In a Sentence:
Your tie is too florid for the meeting. Perhaps you should wear a tie more suited for business.
Memory trick:
Flor - id
In a Sentence:
Your tie is too florid for the meeting. Perhaps you should wear a tie more suited for business.
Memory trick:
Flor - id
posted by Englishionary at
9:54 AM
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