| 单词 | flowery |
| 释义 | flowery (flaʊəri ) 1. adjective A flowery smell is strong and sweet, like flowers. Amy thought she caught the faintest drift of Isabel's flowery perfume. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Flowery cloth, paper, or china has a lot of flowers printed or painted on it. The baby, dressed in a flowery jumpsuit, waved her rattle. Synonyms: floral, flower-patterned 3. adjective Flowery speech or writing contains long or literary words and expressions. They were using uncommonly flowery language. Synonyms: ornate, fancy, rhetorical, high-flown Collocations: flowery language It's all too symmetrical, too schematic, and the flowery language, overburdened with butterflies, swans and broken-winged angels, exacerbates its rarefied, overblown quality. Times, Sunday Times I make them short and conversational; flowery language and theological jargon don't make sense to the sorrowing family. Christianity Today We eschew flowery language but use endless evasions and circumlocutions that sound polite to us, but maddeningly vague to others. Times, Sunday Times No opaque or flowery language: it just did exactly what it said on the bottle. Times, Sunday Times However, it can be expressed in flowery language about a wish to keep you 'informed about developments' or 'updated on news' about the charity. Times, Sunday Times |
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