flowery
/ˈflaʊəɹi/ adjective C2- Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
- Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
- Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
- Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
Comparative flowerier · Superlative floweriest
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All the school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them, coming home in the clear, echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil.
I made it very flowery and poetical and Bertram went on his knees, although Ruby Gillis says it isn’t done nowadays.
Under such circumstances you don’t think much about making a flowery prayer.
Two columns were occupied with a highly sensational and flowery rendering of the whole incident.
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