flowery
Plural: floweries
Adjective
- Abounding in or decorated with flowers; ornate in style.
- of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
- "a flowery hat"
- "flowery wine"
Adjective Satellite
- marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; ; -John Milton
- "a flowery speech"
Adj
- 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.
Noun
- Someone or something considered flowery.
- A flowery person.
- Someone or something considered flowery.
- A flowery phrase or statement.
- Someone or something considered flowery.
- A flowery decoration.
- Diminutive of flower.
- A place where flowers grow.
Examples
- His flowery prose in Scrabble often led to long, complex words, sometimes to his detriment.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
Scrabble Score: 16
flowery: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordflowery: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flowery: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
flowery: valid Words With Friends Word