Florid Synonyms and Antonyms

flôrĭd, flŏr-
Of a healthy reddish color
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. rubicund
  2. ruddy
  3. sanguine
  4. blooming
  5. flush
  6. flushed
  7. full-blooded
  8. glowing
  9. rosy
Antonyms:
  1. pale
  2. white
  3. pallid
Elaborately and heavily ornamented
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ornate
  2. flamboyant
  3. flowery
  4. baroque
  5. rococo
  6. blooming
  7. embellished
  8. erubescent
  9. figurative
  10. aureate
  11. flourishing
  12. flushed
  13. healthy
  14. melismatic
  15. grandiloquent
  16. rhetorical
  17. rubescent
  18. rubicund
  19. rubicund. red
  20. ruddy
  21. rufous
  22. showy
  23. vigorous
Antonyms:
  1. plain
  2. inelaborate
  3. unornate
  4. undecorated
  5. natural
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. erubescence
  2. floridity
  3. rubescence
  4. rubicundity

Words Related to Florid

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Florid Sentence Examples

  • He had much taste and love for music, and considerable gifts as an orator of a florid type.

  • It is full of youthful enthusiasm and is written in florid language.

  • Her own account of her escape is, as usual, so florid that it provokes the question whether she was really in any danger.

  • Of the eleven churches, the most interesting is the cathedral of St Stephen, a florid, rococo edifice.

  • He had previously affected the florid, or Asiatic, style of oratory then current in Rome.

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