Word Definition
Florid
- Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
- Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
- Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
- Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.