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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn