florid

florid is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.
2. adjective. Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.
3. adjective. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.
4. adjective. Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.
5. adjective. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life

   "a ruddy complexion"

   "Santa's rubicund cheeks"

   Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy, sanguine

6. adjective. elaborately or excessively ornamented

   "flamboyant handwriting"

   "the senator's florid speech"

   Synonyms: aureate, flamboyant

Synonyms

rubicund, ruddy, sanguine, aureate, flamboyant

Common word forms

floridly, floridity, floridness

Words from these letters

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