flowery.
Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
Meaning & usage
Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
Someone or something considered flowery. A flowery person.
Someone or something considered flowery. A flowery phrase or statement.
Someone or something considered flowery. A flowery decoration.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
A place where flowers grow.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English flower Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English flowery From flower + -ery.
Diminutive of flower.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English flower Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English flowery From flower + -y (diminutive suffix).
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