florid
adjective
[ ˈflɒrɪd ]
• having a red or flushed complexion.
• "a stout man with a florid face"
Similar:
ruddy,
red,
red-faced,
reddish,
rosy,
rosy-cheeked,
pink,
pinkish,
roseate,
rubicund,
healthy-looking,
glowing,
fresh,
flushed,
blushing,
high-coloured,
blowsy,
sanguine,
erubescent,
rubescent,
• excessively intricate or elaborate.
• "a florid, baroque building"
Similar:
ornate,
fancy,
very elaborate,
over-elaborate,
embellished,
curlicued,
extravagant,
flamboyant,
baroque,
rococo,
fussy,
busy,
ostentatious,
showy,
wedding-cake,
gingerbread,
flowery,
high-flown,
high-sounding,
magniloquent,
grandiloquent,
orotund,
rhetorical,
oratorical,
bombastic,
laboured,
strained,
overwrought,
elaborate,
overblown,
overripe,
overdone,
convoluted,
turgid,
inflated,
highfalutin,
purple,
tumid,
pleonastic,
euphuistic,
aureate,
Ossianic,
fustian,
hyperventilated,
• (of a disease or its manifestations) occurring in a fully developed form.
• "florid symptoms of psychiatric disorder"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin floridus, from flos, flor- ‘flower’.
