flowery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or relating to or suggestive of flowers
    • a flowery hat
    • flowery wine
  2. adjective satellite marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details
    ornate.
    • a flowery speech
    • ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

WordNet


Flow"er*y adjective
Definitions
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.
  2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton.

Webster 1913