flowery
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈflaʊəri/
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- You don't need flowery rhetoric or impassioned speeches to communicate with your people.
- flowery language
- flowery prose
- flowery trappings
And Hemingway's writing is the kind of the counterpoint to a flowery, to heroic to a romantic kind of writing.
- And Hemingway's writing is the kind of the counterpoint to a flowery, to heroic to a romantic kind of writing.
- So he begins at the start by saying Stoics did not busy themselves with flowery bits of speech.
- She's just like, no, no, she just hits it on the mark where sometimes I can be very flowery, you know, very gentle.
Examples
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But beneath Mr. Obama's flowery rhetoric, his message was anything but Kennedy-esque.
Academic text (2010) -
And the bad guy had these flowery speeches.
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Do we want to be too flowery about saying it the first time?
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A bit flowery for my taste.
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This next part gets a little flowery...
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Please, all I said was that the opening is a little flowery.
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The writing was flowery, like something from a cheap romantic novel.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'm afraid we authors are a little flowery in our speech.
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For all of its flowery language, the message was simple: If you want rotten, we've got it.
Academic text (2003) -
The author's love for flowery language made the novel a bit hard to read.
Synonyms
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7.0
Using long, fancy words and complicated sentences that make writing hard to follow
3
5.9
Using strong words that make clear scenes in the mind
Writing or speech that is too long, showy, and hard to read
Antonyms
How Ornate
- Literature
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9.9
- Formal
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8.6
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5.3
- Literature
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7.0
49
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word flowery comes from flower + -y, and a helpful way to remember the second meaning is to imagine words 'covered in flowers'. That's why flowery writing or speech feels very decorated, fancy, or sometimes too much.