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florid

Syllabification: (flor·id)
Pronunciation: /ˈflôrid, ˈflär-/

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Definition of florid

adjective

  • 1having a red or flushed complexion:a stout man with a florid face
  • 2elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated:florid operatic-style music was out
  • (of language) using unusual words or complicated rhetorical constructions:the florid prose of the nineteenth century
  • 3 Medicine (of a disease or its manifestations) occurring in a fully developed form:florid symptoms of psychiatric disorder

Derivatives

floridity

Pronunciation: /fləˈridətē/

noun

floridly

adverb

floridness

noun

Origin:

mid 17th century: from Latin floridus, from flos, flor- 'flower'

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