Florid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLORID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• flowery; having a ruddy or highly coloured complexion
• having a red or flushed complexion
• excessively intricate or elaborate
• (of language) using unusual words or complicated rhetorical devices
• (of a disease or its manifestations) occurring in a fully developed form
• with a red or flushed complexion
• Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
• Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
• Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
• Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
• elaborately or excessively ornamented
• inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life

Words related to FLORID

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Words that contain FLORID

florider12 floridly15 floridean13 floridest13 floridity16 florideans14 florideous14 floridness14 floridities15 floridnesses16

How to use FLORID in a sentence

• He was a sort of apostle, a popular and fiery orator, a florid speaker, much given to the use of metaphors.
• The governor has much more the appearance of an Irishman than of a Spaniard, being tall, portly, of a florid complexion.
• It may well be believed that these florid builders did not suffer the spire to arise serious and serene from the midst of this delicious tangle of architecture.
• Sharon, the round, stout man, two years younger than Gideon, had the same blue eyes, but they looked from a face plump, florid, vivacious.
• I saw her sharp-cut, florid face in profile, steadily bent and smelling.
• A frown came on the florid countenance of the young officer.
• He was florid, well-proportioned, and the goodness of his disposition made his manners amiable.
• One of these two was Sir David Forster, a big man, with a light-brown beard and a florid complexion.
• A pile that as it is, is only too reminiscent of the florid imaginings of the Gothic revival.
• Carker was a man of forty, of a florid complexion, with very glistening white teeth, which showed conspicuously when he spoke.
• Hence she, thinking him still in earnest when he had swerved into florid romance, had been dangerously misled.
• The blue eye and florid complexion accompany the light color of the hair.
• The third person at their table was a handsome young man, with glossy black hair, a high-coloured, florid face, and a roving black eye.
• BLASHFIELD That admirers of minute designs and florid detail could appreciate grandeur as well, no one can doubt who has seen the plans of the Sienese cathedral.
• He was a great big fellow with a florid complexion and blue eyes, and was utterly devoid of fear, nothing that came in his direction being too hot for him to handle.
• His chin rested on a double fold of flesh, and his florid complexion indicated a priest.
• A fine-looking man in the uniform of a major, with a fresh, florid countenance, and high forehead adorned with a broad scar, came to meet him.
• Of the Florid or Perpendicular English Style 120 CHAP.
• He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient.
• In a few days he was going about again, weak naturally, rather handsomer than before because a little less florid.
• The officer in command, a portly, florid Englishman, laughed heartily at the gestures and outcries of the routed soldiers.
• Her countenance had become very florid and her figure very stout.
• Less florid commendation is given by the Comte de Paris, of date October 15.
• One of them was a stout lady with a rather florid complexion, apparently between forty-five and fifty, wearing a silk blouse with thin purple and white stripes.
• Dax’s feet, he joked Henderson on his pallor, he attempted a florid venture at Kitty.
• Weatherley had the appearance of a man who had once been florid and prosperous and comfortable-looking, but who had been visited by illness or some sort of anxiety.
• Her face, which had been quite florid, turned pale.
• The meeting was then addressed in English by a short gentleman, of florid complexion.

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