florid Definition

showy, flamboyant, fancy, aureate, rococo, florissant, flowery, grandiloquent, declamatory, melodramatic, orotund, poetic, bombastic, baroque, pompous, mellifluous, histrionic, overwrought, wordy, sonorous, evocative, lugubrious, prolix, saturnine, cadenced, droll, aphoristic, nabokovian, mozartian, toneless, stentorian, waspish, verbose, pedantic, plummy, epigrammatic, blowsy, hieratic, rhapsodic, overfamiliar, epicene, quavery, foppish, pointillistic, rebarbative, portentous, polysyllabic, digressive, unpoetic, bathetic, incantatory, idiomatic, pretentious, honeyed, lumpish, rabelaisian, pellucid, dulcet, dandified, dostoevskian, metrical, maudlin, fluttery, melismatic, lachrymose, pallid, decorous, gnomic, courtly, brusk, leaden, mawkish, acidulous, poetical, ravishing, sententious, pantomimic, ponderous, affectless, filigreed, mordant, jaunty, songlike, jocose, latinate, insouciant, etiolated, lyrical, unmodulated, erudite, jamesian, sibilant, lambent, dolorous, overdetermined, limpid, inexpressive, idiosyncratic, sidelong, eulogistic,