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Definition: Flowery |
FloweryAdjective1. Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton. 2. Abounding in or covered with flowers; "flowering meadows"; "a flowery field"; "a bloomy sunlit slope". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flowery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: FlowerySynonyms: bloomy (adj), blossomy (adj), ornate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Smart, gay, trickly, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight, well-groomed. |
Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flowery |
| English words defined with "flowery": acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid ♦ bitter, blistering, bloomy, blossomy ♦ caustic ♦ Florulent, Floweriness ♦ ornate ♦ purple passage ♦ sulfurous, sulphurous ♦ venomous, virulent, vitriolic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flowery": Pigeon-English ♦ STILTS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flowery": Anthodium. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Under the cherry blossoms in the flowery kingdom, Japan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "By the sausalito waters" by Sherry Yeo Commentary: "A pretty flowery plant by the sausalito, a close-up on the plant. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was violent and flowery, like most prosecuting attorneys |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Flowery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flowery" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 108 | 31,306 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flowery": Flowery Branch ♦ flowery perfume ♦ The flowery kingdom. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flowery": Flowery-kirtled, flowery-papered. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flowery branch georgia | 101 |
flowery branch | 17 |
flowery | 12 |
branch flowery high school | 5 |
background flowery | 3 |
fifty five flowery | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flowery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me lulka, me lule (floral, floriated). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكسو بالأزهار, منمق (aborned, bombastic, embellished, florid, highly elegant, ornamented, ornate, retoucher), زهري, بياني (declarative, demonstrative, diagrammatic, graphic, graphical, rhetorical). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цветист (colorful, colourful, exuberant, flamboyant, flaming, luxuriant, opulent, purple, racy, rotund). (various references) | |
Chinese | 華 (China, flower, Hua, magnificent, name of a mountain, splendid), 用花装饰, 如花 . (various references) | |
Czech | kvìtinový (floral). (various references) | |
Finnish | kukallinen (flowered). (various references) | |
French | fleuri (florid), orné (florid), émaillé de fleurs. (various references) | |
German | schnörkelig (ornate, squiggly), blumige, blumig (florid, floridly, flowerily, frilly, ornate). (various references) | |
Greek | εξεζητημένος (bombastic, far-fetched, sophisticated, stilted), λουλουδένιος (floral), ανθηρόσ (blooming, florescent, florid, flourishing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מליצי (bombastic, figurative, florid, ornate, rhetorical), מצועצע (flamboyant, florid, ornamented, ornate, showy), מסולסל (curled, curly, exalted, florid, fulsome, fuzzy, ornate, ringleted, waved), פרחי (floral, ornate), פרחוני (ornate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágzó (abloom, blooming, flourishing, flowering, full blown, full-blown, palmy, prime, prosperous, thriving), virágos (floral, floriated, florid, flowered, ornate, phanerogamous), virágokkal díszített, virágokkal borított, virágmintával díszített, sallangos, faágmintával díszített. (various references) | |
Italian | fiorito (abloom, blooming, florid, floridly, flowered, flowerily, flowering), infiorato, in fiore (abloom, flowered). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 絢爛たる (dazzling, gorgeous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けんらんたる (dazzling, gorgeous). (various references) | |
Manx | ornaidagh (colourful, decorative, flashy, ornate), my vlaa (blooming, efflorescent, flourishing, flowering, in flower), blaaoil (floral, florid), blaa vreck (flowered). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oweryflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | florido (abloom, bloomy, florid, flowered), floreado (garniture, twirl), enfeitado (florid, ornate). (various references) | |
Romanian | înflorit (blooming, exuberant, florid, full blown, in bloom), împodobit (dight, florid). (various references) | |
Russian | цветистый (exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cvetni (floral). (various references) | |
Spanish | florido (blooming, florid, ornate), floreado (flowered), floral (floral). (various references) | |
Swedish | blomsterrik, blomsterprydd, blomrik, blommig (floral, flowered), blomliknande. (various references) | |
Turkish | süslü (arrayed, bombastic, chichi, fancy, figurative, florid, frilly, high-flown, luxuriant, natty, ornate), çiçeksi, çiçekli (abloom, blooming, florid, flowered, flowering), çiçeklerle kaplı, çiçek desenli (flowered). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | укритий квітами, квітчастий (flamboyant, luxuriant), квітковий (angiospermous, floral). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hoa mỹ (florid), có nhiều hoa, đầy hoa văn hoa. (various references) | |
Welsh | blodeuog (flourishing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | floridam, floridus, floriens. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Flowery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aflower, fiower, fleery, fliwer, fllower, Flobert, flowern, flowry, flow'ry, fluower. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flowery" (pronounced flou"erē) |
| 4 | -l ou" er ē | Lowery. |
| 3 | -ou" er ē | bowery. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l-o-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: flower, fowler, lowery, reflow, wolfer, yowler. | |
-2 letters: ferly, flyer, foyer, lower, refly, rowel. | |
-3 letters: flew, fley, floe, flow, fore, fowl, froe, frow, lore, lory, lowe, lyre, orle, oyer, rely, role, rolf, wolf, wore, wyle, yore, yowe, yowl. | |
-4 letters: elf, fer, few, fey, fly, foe, for, foy, fro, fry, ley, low, lye, ole, ore, owe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-l-o-r-w-y" | |
+2 letters: dayflower, flowerily, mayflower, wolfberry. | |
+3 letters: dayflowers, mayflowers, powerfully. | |
+4 letters: gillyflower, wonderfully. | |
+5 letters: gillyflowers. | |
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