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 should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke