flowery
pronunciation
How to pronounce flowery in British English:
UK [ˈflaʊəri]
How to pronounce flowery in American English:
US [ˈflaʊəri]
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- Adjective:
- marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
Word Origin
- flowery (adj.)
- mid-14c., from flower (n.) + -y (2). Figurative sense "richly embellished," in reference to language, is from c. 1600. Related: Floweriness.
Example
- 1. Does it have to be so flowery ?
- 2. A flowery band to bind us to the earth .
- 3. Our progress was slow as I kept stopping to admire doors studded with exquisite metalwork , fanciful signs and railings bending their flowery heads in gilded , spiked bouquets .
- 4. A bit flowery for my taste .
- 5. Film is hit by the classical flowery lens .