Flowery

a.	1.	Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
	2.	Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. The flowery kingdom China.

Adj.

1.

flowery - marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton Synonyms: ornate

Gongoristic, adorned, affected, allusive, ambrosial, arabesque, aromatic, artificial, aureate, balmy, baroque, befrilled, blooming, bloomy, blossoming, bombastic, busy, chichi, colored, declamatory, decorated, diffuse, efflorescent, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, embellished, embroidered, essenced, euphuistic, fancy, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, floral, floreate, florescent, floriate, floriated, floricultural, florid, flowered, flowering, fragrant, frilly, fruity, fussy, garden, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-wrought, horticultural, hortulan, in bloom, in blossom, in flower, incense-breathing, inflated, inflorescent, labored, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, mannered, metaphorical, moresque, multiflorous, musky, odorate, odoriferous, odorous, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overcharged, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overloaded, overworked, overwrought, perfumed, perfumy, picturesque, pompous, pretty-pretty, prolix, purple, radiciflorous, redolent, redundant, referential, rhizanthous, rich, rococo, savory, scented, showy, sonorous, spicy, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, swollen, thuriferous, trolatitious, tropological, uniflorous, verbose, wordy

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