Associations to the word «Flowery»

Wiktionary

FLOWERY, adjective. (not comparable) Pertaining to flowers.
FLOWERY, adjective. Decorated with flowers.
FLOWERY, adjective. Of a speech or piece of writing: too complicated; elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; bombastic; verbose.
FLOWERY KINGDOM, proper noun. (dated) China

Dictionary definition

FLOWERY, adjective. Of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine".
FLOWERY, adjective. Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope