floweryadjective
uk/ˈflaʊ.ə.ri/us/ˈflaʊ.ɚ.i/flowery adjective (FLOWERS)
also flowered, decorated with pictures of flowers:
a flowery material/dress
flowery curtains/wallpaper
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Flowers - general words
- -petalled
- abscission
- be in blossom idiom
- bloom
- catkin
- come
- come out
- double
- ear
- efflorescence
- floral
- head
- in flower idiom
- may
- petal
- photosynthesis
- root
- rosebud
- sepal
- stigma
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Patterns and shapes
flowery adjective (WORDS)
disapproving If a speech or writing style is flowery, it uses too many complicated words or phrases in an attempt to sound skilful:
a flowery description/speech
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Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- anaphor
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
- lexicology
- linguistic
- litotes
- neurolinguistics
- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- semiotics
- stylistics
- tone language
- tongue
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